Resting among the high scrub from view most of them hidden away
Though a minority of them venture out from cover to graze in the daylight
They are mostly nocturnal creatures of the night
Up to a few centuries ago hunted for food by Tower Hill's first people the Peek Wurrong
In Tower Hill they had their Corroborees of dance and song
Dispossessed from their lands and it seems sad to say
No Peek Wurrong person in Tower Hill today
In the flesh in Illowa never to hunt again
But the descendants of the kangaroos they hunted in Tower Hill remain
Today in Tower Hill there are gray kangaroo
But never a drone of a didgeridoo
And the Peek Wurrong only live in name
To be Tower Hill's first people their great claim to fame
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