Never cut, disturbed or lumbered,
Woods beyond the river lie,
The unclean there thrived unnumbered,
Driving mad the passers-by.

Shrieking, filling up the thicket
with fright’ning wails,
Into brigands turned at midnight
there nightingales!
Ab-so-lute dread!

In the bogs there prospered witches,
Served by lizards, snakes and frogs,
And a lot of poor creatures
Witches drowned in the bogs.

There recently vanished
a drover
In these woods imps were running
all over!
Ab-so-lute dread!

Lots of folks had died in terror
In the jaws of awful ghouls,
Some would stray to swamps in error,
Some were drunk and some were fools.

Be you recklessly brave
or a coward -
All the same you’ll be grabbed
and devoured!
Ab-so-lute dread!

Foreign demons, wild and fierce,
Flying speedier than winds,
Shifting into highest gears,
Came to visit local fiends.

In this forest they made
an appearance
To exchange their evil
experience!
Ab-so-lute dread!

They were led by Dragon - big and
Pretty vile, to say the least.
Old Nightingale, the brigand,
Threw the guests a lavish feast.

Served them corpses and some black
wizard’s potion,
Danced on coffins in a horrid
commotion!
Ab-so-lute dread!

Dragon soon got rather plastered,
Climbed a tree and yelled from it:
"Bring me girls, you, brigand, bastard,
Wanna get a real treat!

Let them show me what nobody
has seen,
Or I’ll rot you in your terrible
latrine!"
Ab-so-lute dread!

Local fiends raised hell about
Dragon’threat - the fuss was hot!
Ghouls began to twist and shout:
"Are we patriots or not?

Shall we put up with Dragon’s
audacity?
Do away with his lustful
voracity!"
Ab-so-lute dread!

And his rage the Brigand showed,
Proving he was not a dog,
Barked at Dragon: "Hit the road!
Leave my highly moral bog!

Fly away with your ilk,
dirty scoundrel,
Or I promise you will hit
the ground, pal!"
Ab-so-lute dread!

Then with garboil, shrieks and rattle
The unclean began to fight,
And in that historic battle
Killed each other overnight!

There’s no witch now there,
no ogre,
And the days of nightmare
are over!
Evil spirits are dead!