Old Merri

In and out of Lake Pertobe on towards Lady Bay
Towards the Pacific at Middle Island it slowly winds it's way
Old Merri that has inspired story and rhyme
That was very old in the dinosaur time
In the home of the magpie and the pale eyed crow
Seawards towards the paddocks it ever does flow
With just a faint babble in deep waters of dark brown
On towards the Pacific near Warrnambool Town
Australia's first people had a different name
For the river that flowed for millions of years before their ancestors came
To live in the Southern Land thousands of years ago
To the river time never does become a foe
Thousands of humans to life have come and have gone
Where old Merri to the ocean forever flows on.