Something In The Pilliga - Slim Dusty

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