Lyrics

[Verse]
Down by the banks of the Youghiogany stream
Where moonlight plays tricks—a surreal
Eerie gleam
Lurks a beast in the shadows
With eyes cold and green
A crocodile snake
In the darkness unseen

[Verse 2]
The locals
They whisper in hushed
Fearful tones
Of the Youghiogany Yapper
That chills to the bones
It slithers and prowls when the night hour is nigh
Under the silvery veil
Of the star-speckled sky

[Chorus]
Oh
Beware the Yapper
It hunts in the night
With scales that glisten
In pale lunar light
A shadow
A phantom
In the cool midnight air
The Youghiogany Yapper
Lurks everywhere

[Verse 3]
They say it comes creeping when the world is asleep
Through cattails and marshes
It silently weeps
Its lament a low growl
That echoes the shore
A glimmer of dread
Behind every door

[Verse 4]
Old children’s tales of the Yapper persist
Of travelers lost in the river’s cold mist
Of sorrow and woe
Of heart-wrenching tear
A legend born dark
In the old yesteryear

[Chorus]
Oh
Beware the Yapper
It hunts in the night
With scales that glisten
In pale lunar light
A shadow
A phantom
In the cool midnight air
The Youghiogany Yapper
Lurks everywhere