We took three pommy blokes
on an outback holiday
It was 42 degree's
And not a decent spot of shade

Not a bird to see in Birdsville
No salt in Lake Eyre
Uluru never glowed
There were just flies everywhere!

(ch)
There were flies on the cowpats
and flies in the food
Flies on our tickly bits
Ooh I'm telling you
We had flies up our noses
in our mouths in our eyes
A million billion bush flies
And not a damn kangaroo!

Well in the middle of Australia
Their old jeep up and died
We left them under a mulga tree
to fetch the right supplies

They started hearing voices
Desert fever had arrived
That night they suffered nightmares
'bout the flies , (Christ the flies!)

(ch)
There were flies on the cowpats
and flies in the food
Flies on our tickly bits
With teeth, I'm telling you!
Blowin' flies out our noses
in our mouths in our eyes
A million billion trillion squillion bloody buzzing flies......
(with teeth!
On me tickly bits!)
There were flies in the damper
And flies in the stew
Flies that drove us all insane
and not a thing we could do
There were flies in our fly nets
flies in the bloody booze
Nothing but those bloody flies
And not a damn kangaroo!