The Dark Merri

In the home of the pee wee and magpie and the black pale eyed crow The dark Merri waters to the Pacific does flow In and out of Lake Pertobe on by Middle Island it flows on it's way Into the Pacific Ocean at Stingray Bay On through the Moyne Shire Towards Warrnambool City moving dark deep and slow How old is the Merri anyone cannot say or know Thousands of centuries before the first people to the land now known as south west Victoria for to live came The Merri was flowing a river without a name In the Dreamtime Australia's first people danced their corroborees By the river on warm Summer evenings in the shade of the trees Since then many Seasons have come and have gone But old Merri to the Pacific as ever flows on In and out of Lake Pertobe to the Pacific shore The Merri will be flowing forever more.