The Shifting Whispering Sands

Johnny Cash — Tom C

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[Intro]

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[G]

I discovered the valley of the shifting, whispering sands

While prospecting in a western state.

[C]

I saw the silent windmills, the crumbling water tanks,

The bones of the cattle picked clean by buzzards, bleached by the desert sun.

[G]

I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sand.

And stopping to rest, I heard a tinkling, whispering sound,

[C] [F]

And suddenly realized that even though the wind was quiet,

[C]

The sand did not lie still.

I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery

[D7]

So heavy and oppresive I could scarcely breathe.

[G]

For weeks I wandered aimlessly in the valley,

[C]

Seeking answers to the many questions that raced through my mind.

Where was ev'ryone? Why the white bones, the dry wells,

[G]

The baron valley where the people must have lived and died?

I sat down and buried my face in my hands.

[C]

And resting, I learned the secret of the shifting, whispering sands.

How I managed to escape from the valley, I don't know.

[G]

But now to pay my debt for being saved, I must tell you

What I learned out on the desert so many years ago.

[C]

[G7]

(When the day is hardly quiet and the breeze seems not to blow,

[C]

One would think the sand was resting but you'll find this is not so.

[G7]

It is whisp'ring, softly whisp'ring, as it slowly moves a-long.

[C]

And those who stop and listen, it will sing this mournful song.

[F] [C]

Of side-winders and the horn toad on the thorny chaparral,

[D7] [G]

In the sunny days and the moonlight nights, the lonely coyotes yell.)

[C]

[G7]

How the stars seem they could touch you as you lay and gaze on high

[C]

At the heavens where you're hoping you'll be going when you die.

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