The Ancient One 2

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An original song about the Saltwater Crocodile. Words and photo by David White of Solar Whisper Daintree Wildlife and Crocodile Cruises. Song by Gary Crockett.

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00:00The Ancient One

00:07The Ancient One

00:09Before names were carved in foreign tongues

00:13Before maps split, waters songs were sung

00:19He swam through time, a living tide

00:25The Ancient Watcher where worlds collide

00:32Biling cool moon they whispered near northern streams

00:38A shadowed king in their sacred dreams

00:44With scales of stone and eyes of fire

00:50He bore the weight of the earth's desire

00:57Salty he may be called the salt-soaked beast

01:04Flat dog mud gecko the marshman priest

01:11Murder long, silent on the water's edge

01:18For a sense of sentinel in his silted hedge

01:24Yet deeper still in the heart of the land

01:31He held the stories the spirits command

01:38To some he was power, a feared dark shape

01:45To others a guardian of life's escape

01:52To some he was power, a feared dark shape

01:59To others a guardian of life's escape

02:05From ocean vast to rivers vain

02:10He ruled the air, the flood, the rain

02:17In stillness he waits, in fury he leaps

02:24The keeper of secrets the water keeps

02:29No borders bind his ancient reign

02:34No name could tether his endless domain

02:41By he was Bill Kumu up here before the rest

02:48The elder, the hunter, the timeless guest

02:55Respect the tide, the ancient flows

03:02For within their depths, his legend grows

03:09Of her 400-year-old kirch

03:25Insert it to a Innovation Room

03:31You

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