{"id":14007,"date":"2022-10-03T03:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T03:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=14007"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:30:19","slug":"whispering-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/whispering-sands\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting, Whispering Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEY OF C – SONS OF THE PIONEERS
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

When the day is oddly quiet and the breeze seems not to blow<\/span>
\nOne would think the sand was resting, but you’ll find this is not so<\/span>
\nIt is whisp’ring, softly whisp’ring, as it slowly moves along<\/span>
\nAnd for those who stop and listen it will sing this mournful song<\/span>
\nOf sidewinders and the horntoads, of the thorny Chaparral<\/span>
\nIn the sunny days and moonlight nights, the coyote’s lonely yell<\/span>
\nHow the stars seem you could touch them as you lay and gaze on high<\/span>
\nAt the heavens where we’re hoping we’ll be going when we die<\/span>
\n–<\/span>
\nYes, it always whispers to me of the days of long ago<\/span>
\nWhen the settlers and the miners fought the crafty Navajo<\/span>
\nHow the cattle roamed the valley, happy people worked the land<\/span>
\nAnd now everything is covered by the shifting whispering sands<\/span>
\nHow the miner left his buckboard, went to work his claims that day<\/span>
\nAnd the burros broke their halters when they thought he’d gone to stay<\/span>
\nWandered far in search of water, on to Old Sidewinder’s Well<\/span>
\nAnd there, their bones picked clean by buzzards<\/span>
\nThat were circling when they fell<\/span>
\n–<\/span>
\nHow they found the ancient miner lying dead upon the sand<\/span>
\nAfter months they could but wonder if he died by human hand<\/span>
\nSo they dug his grave and laid him on his back and crossed his hands<\/span>
\nAnd his secret still is hidden by the shifting whispering sands<\/span>
\nThis is what they whispered to me on the quiet desert air<\/span>
\nOf the people, and the cattle, and the miner lying there<\/span>
\nIf you want to learn their secret, wander through this quiet land<\/span>
\nAnd I’m sure you’ll hear the story of the shifting, whispering sands<\/span>
\nShifting whispering sands<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KEY OF C – SONS OF THE PIONEERS When the day is oddly quiet and the breeze seems not to blow One would think the sand was resting, but you’ll find this is not so It is whisp’ring, softly whisp’ring, as it slowly moves along And for those who stop … CLICK TO VIEW SONGShifting, Whispering Sands<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}