The Dark Merri Waters

In and out of Lake Pertobe and on to Lady Bay
The dark Merri waters slowly winds it's way
And follows on the course of it's destiny
For to join the great waves of the Pacific Sea

The river that has inspired story and rhyme
That was very old even in the Dreamtime
When the local tribes had their corroborees
Where they danced, sung and told stories in the shade of the trees.

Through flat coastal paddocks of rich green to brown
On to the great ocean near Warrnambool Town
For centuries and centuries it's been babbling along
It was even very old back in the birth of song

In and out of Lake Pertobe to the ocean nearby
The river that was old long before birds did fly
How old is the Merri the answer none does know
On to the Pacific it ever does flow.