I camped one night in an empty hut on the side of a lonely hill.
I didnt go much on empty huts, but the night was awful chill.
So I boiled me billy and had me tea and seen that the door was shut.
Then I went to bed in an empty bunk by the side of the old slab hut.
It must have been about twelve oclock I was feeling cosy and warm
When at the foot of me bunk I sees a horrible ghostly form
It seemed in shape to be half an ape with a head like a chimpanzee
But wot the hell was it doin there, and wot did it want with me?
You may say if you please that I had DTs or call me a crimson liar,
But I wish you had seen it as plain as me, with its eyes like coals of fire.
Then it gave a moan and a horrible groan that curdled me blood with fear,
And Theres only the two of us here, it moans, Theres only the two of us here!
I kept one eye on the old hut door and one on the awful brute;
I only wanted to dress meself and get to the door and scoot.
But I couldnt find where Id left me boots so I hadnt a chance to clear
And, Theres only the two of us here, it moans. Theres only the two of us here!
I hadnt a thing to defend meself, not even a stick or stone,
And Theres only the two of here! It ses again with a horrible groan.
I thought Id better make some reply, though I reckoned me end was near,
By the Holy Smoke, when I find me boots, therell be only one of us here.
I get me hands on me number tens and out through the door I scoots,
And I lit the whole of the ridges up with the sparks from me blucher boots.
So Ive never slept in a hut since then, and I tremble and shake with fear
When I think of the horrible form wot moaned, Theres only the two of us here!