Something In The Pilliga

I was driving through the Pilliga, getting tired of the road Pulled over for a breather, stretched my legs and checked the load It was getting close to sundown, been away near on a week When I pulled into this campsite on the banks of Toolie Creek Well, I walked around the trail and the bush was pretty still Checking ropes and kicking tires, in the night there had a chill I was climbing in the cabin when I thought I heard a moan And I got this sudden feeling that I wasn't on my own Oh, there's something in the Pilliga, I've heard old timers say That some won't even camp there, some never go that way And if you listen to their stories, they'll make your skin just crawl Some may offer their opinion and some never talk at all Well, I put her down to maybe, the wind blowing in the trees Completely disregarding shaky feelings in my knees I was climbing in the camper, forty winks was all I'd take When I felt the cabin shaking, I was really wide awake Oh, I grabbed the tire lever out from underneath the seat Hit the lights and threw some Roman sandals on my feet I was creeping 'round the bull-bar, out roared this awful sound And my hair was standing straight up, I was frozen to the ground Hey, there's something in the Pilliga, I've heard old timers say That some won't even camp there, some never go that way And if you listen to their stories, they'll make your skin just crawl Some may offer their opinion and some never talk at all Then this thing came charging for me, it was all of ten feet high With hair all covered over, murder in its devil eyes And I must've started screaming like a banshee in full flight For it roared and grunted something and then vanished in the night When finally I woke up, I was lying on the ground And an eerie kind of stillness, nothing moved nor made a sound Both my eyes were big as saucers, still seeing in my mind That primeval apparition, red eyes burning into mine Oh, there's something in the Pilliga, I've heard it rant and roar And my nerves were shot to pieces remembering what I saw It was big and it was hairy, its perfume really reeked Yeah, there's something in the Pilliga mate, on the banks of Toolie Creek Let it stay there in the Pilliga on the banks of Toolie Creek