《The Shifting Whispering Sands》歌词

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

[00:00:02] Written by：Mary Hadler/Jack Gilbert

[00:00:12] I discovered the valley of the shifting whispering sands

[00:00:15] While prospecting for gold in one of our western states

[00:00:19] I saw the silent windmills the crumbling water tanks

[00:00:24] The bones of cattle and burrows picked clean by buzzards

[00:00:27] Bleached by the desert sun

[00:00:30] I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands

[00:00:34] And stopping to rest I heard a tinkling whispering sound

[00:00:38] And suddenly realised that even though

[00:00:40] The wind was quiet the sand did not lie still

[00:00:45] I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery so heavy

[00:00:47] And oppressive I can scarcely breath

[00:00:50] For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley

[00:00:52] Seeking answers to the many questions

[00:00:54] That raced through my fevered mind

[00:00:57] Where was everyone why the white bones the dry wells

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

[00:01:05] Finally I could go no farther my food and water gone

[00:01:10] I sat down and buried my face in my hands and resting thus

[00:01:14] I learnt the secret of the shifting whispering sands

[00:01:17] How I manage to escaped from the valley I do not know

[00:01:20] But now to pay my final debt for being spared

[00:01:23] I must tell you what I learned out there on the desert

[00:01:26] So many years ago

[00:01:29] When the day is oddly quiet

[00:01:34] And the breeze seems not to blow

[00:01:39] One would think the sand was resting

[00:01:44] But you'll find this is not so

[00:01:49] It is whisp'ring softly whisp'ring

[00:01:54] As it slowly moves along

[00:01:58] And for those who stop and listen

[00:02:04] It will sing this mournful song

[00:02:08] Of sidewinders and the horntoads

[00:02:14] Of the Thorny Chaparral

[00:02:19] In the sunny days and moonlight nights

[00:02:24] The coyote's lonely yell

[00:02:28] How the stars seem you could touch them

[00:02:34] As you lay and gaze on high

[00:02:38] At the heavens where we're hoping

[00:02:44] We'll be going when we die

[00:02:50] Yes it always whispers to me of the days of long ago

[00:02:56] When the settlers and the miners fought the crafty navaho

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

[00:03:04] And now everything is covered by the shifting whispering sands

[00:03:08] How the miner left his buckboard went to work his claims that day

[00:03:13] And the burros broke their halters when they thought he'd gone to stay

[00:03:17] Wandered far in search of water on to old sidewinder's well

[00:03:22] And there their bones picked clean by buzzards that were circling when they fell

[00:03:27] How they found the ancient miner lying dead upon the sand

[00:03:37] After months they could but wonder if he died by human hand

[00:03:46] So they dug his grave and laid him on his back and crossed his hands

[00:03:56] And his secret still is hidden by the shifting whispering sands

[00:04:09] This is what they whispered to me on the quiet desert air

[00:04:14] Of the people and the cattle and the miner lying there

[00:04:26] If you want to learn their secret wander through this quiet land

[00:04:37] And I'm sure you'll hear the story of the shifting whispering sands

[00:04:46] On the shifting whispering sands