《The Shifting Whispering Sands》歌词

[00:00:00] The Shifting Whispering Sands-Jim Reeves

[00:00:14] I discovered the valley of the shifting whispering sands

[00:00:18] While prospecting for gold in one of our western states

[00:00:22] I saw the silent windmills the crumbling water tanks

[00:00:29] The bones of cattle and burrows picked clean by buzzards

[00:00:34] Bleached by the desert sun

[00:00:38] I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands

[00:00:42] And stopping to rest I heard a tinkling whispering sound

[00:00:46] And suddenly realised that even though

[00:00:48] The wind was quiet the sand did not lie still

[00:00:54] I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery so heavy

[00:00:56] And oppressive I could scarcely breath

[00:00:59] For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley

[00:01:03] Seeking answers to the many questions

[00:01:04] That raced through my fevered mind

[00:01:07] Where was everyone why the white bones the dry wells

[00:01:12] The barren valley where people must have lived and died

[00:01:16] Finally I could go no farther my food and water gone

[00:01:20] I sat down and buried my face in my hands and resting thus

[00:01:24] I learnt the secret of the shifting whispering sands

[00:01:27] How I escaped from the valley I do not know

[00:01:30] But now to pay my final debt for being spared

[00:01:33] I must tell you what I learned out there on the desert

[00:01:37] So many years ago

[00:01:40] (When the day is oddly quiet

[00:01:46] And the breeze seems not to blow

[00:01:52] One would think the sand was resting

[00:01:57] But you'll find this is not so

[00:02:02] It is whisp'ring softly whisp'ring

[00:02:09] As it slowly moves along

[00:02:13] And for those who stop and listen

[00:02:20] It will sing this mournful song

[00:02:25] Of sidewinders and the horntoads

[00:02:31] Of the Thorny Chaparral

[00:02:36] In the sunny days and moonlight nights

[00:02:42] The coyote's lonely yell

[00:02:47] How the stars seem you could touch them

[00:02:53] As you lay and gaze on high

[00:02:58] At the Heavens where we're hoping

[00:03:04] We'll be going when we die

[00:03:11] Yes it always whispers to me of the days of long ago

[00:03:17] When the settlers and the miners fought the crafty Navaho

[00:03:23] How the cattle roamed the valley happy people worked the land

[00:03:28] And now everything is covered by the shifting whispering sands

[00:03:33] How the miner left his buckboard went to work his claim that day

[00:03:37] And the burros broke their halters when they thought he'd gone to stay

[00:03:42] Wandered far in search of water on to Old Sidewinder's Well

[00:03:45] And there their bones picked clean by buzzards that were circling when they fell

[00:03:54] (How they found the ancient miner lying dead upon the sand

[00:04:05] After months they could but wonder if he died by human hand

[00:04:15] So they dug his grave and laid him on his back and crossed his hands

[00:04:27] And his secret still is hidden by the shifting whispering sands)

[00:04:41] This is what they whispered to me on the quiet desert air

[00:04:51] Of the people and the cattle and the miner lying there

[00:05:01] If you want to learn their secret wander through this quiet land

[00:05:09] And I'm sure you'll hear the story of the shifting whispering sands

[00:05:22] (Of the shifting whispering sands)