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Shadow You Have Seen 
Shadow You Have Seen (Leon Rosselson) 
Across the hills, black clouds are sweeping Carry poison far and wide And the grass has blackened underfoot And the rose has withered and died 
But the rose is still as red love And the grass is still as green And it must have been a shadow in the distance you have seen Yes it must have been a shadow you have seen 
But can't you hear the children weeping? Can't you hear the mournful sound? And no birds sing in the twisted trees In the silent streets around 
I can hear the children laughing In the streets as they play And you must have caught the dying of an echo far away Yes it must have been an echo far away 
But can't you see the white ash falling? From the hollow of the skies? And the blood runs red down the blackened walls Where a ruined city lies 
I can see the red sun shining In the park on the stream And you must have felt a shiver from the darkness of a dream Yes it must have been the darkness of a dream 
But the rose is still as red, love And the grass is still as green And it must have been a shadow you have seen But the rose is still as red, love And the grass is still as green 
And it must have been a shadow you have seen And death shall reap a hellish harvest Make a desert of this land And it must have been a shadow you have seen 
Copyright Leon Rosselson recorded by Ian Campbell Folk Group SOF