Shadows on the Hill

I see shadows on the hill

Up beside the old sawmill

Where my people were killed

I see shadows on the hill

I see shadows on the ground

Where the bones don't make no sound

Hidden so they can be found

I see shadows on the ground

On the Old Glen Innes road

Where the great man river flows

Men, women, children slain

Buried up there on that range

I woke up in the dead of night

Saw two men in the fire light

They had scars across their chest

Said their spirits cannot rest

They spoke to me in tongue

I answered back at very once

Never spoke that way before

I am not a man by law

But I see shadows on the hill

Up beside the old sawmill

Where my people were killed

I see shadows on the hill

Where the catfish makes its ring

And the birds refuse to sing

Voices follow family lines

As they whisper through the pines

And around the granite stones

They'll forever be alone

Their killers got off free

But their shadows never leave

I see shadows on the hill

Up beside the old sawmill

Where my people were killed

I see shadows on the hill