Billy Vaughn The Shifting Whispering Sands Lyrics

The Shifting Whispering Sands Lyrics

(listen to the age old story of 

the shifting, whispering sand)



Yes it always whispers to me

Of the days of long ago

When the
settlers and the miners

Fought the crafty Navajo

How the cattle
roamed the valley

Happy people worked the land

And now everything
is covered

By the shifting, whispering sand



Oh the miner
left his buckboards

When he worked his claims that day

And the
burro's broke their halters

When they thought he'd gone to stay

How
they found the ancient miner

Lyin dead upon the sand

For months they
could but wonder

If he died by human hands



So they dug his
grave and laid him

On his back and crossed his hands

And his secret
still is hidden

By the shifting, whispering sands



This is
what they whispered to me

Way out in the quiet desert air

Of the
people and the cattle

And that miner lying there



If you want
to learn his secret

Wander through this quiet land

And I'm sure
you'll hear the story 

Of the shifting, whispering sand

The
shifting, whispering sand