This is a song from Sand.
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The story of sand is amazing to hear
It's formed over millions and millions of years
It's made up of minerals, bits of all sorts
Like mica and feldspar, but most of all, quartz
It starts with big rocks in mountains up high
They get weathered by wind, rain, and snow from the sky
In time, they're worn down, though they're sturdy and stout
But small bits of minerals slowly fall out
Sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, sand
The tiniest bits are then carried away
By rain or by wind on some blustery day
To streams and rivers where the waters run free
And they're carried downstream and at last out to sea
The waves of the ocean then wash them ashore
Though they started as rocks many ages before
They finish their journey from far, far away
Now they're sand on a beach where you frolic and play
Sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, sand
Though it's mostly from rocks, sand has more stuff as well
Like broken up pieces of coral and shell
The grains are a mix from the sea and the land
And together, they make up the stuff we call sand
Sand, sand, sand, sand, sand, sand
That useful and beautiful stuff, we call sand!