[Verse 1] August of 78, smothering Ohio heat Rusty porches, blonde boy in the creek Strip mine water, black and still Moonface sunk in every hill Hounds barking like they know the name Then they come back, split and lame [Pre-Chorus] Four-by-fours in a gravel line Men with flashlights, hard and wild Something moves where the cattails bend And the dogs won’t go there again [Chorus] Bigfoot on the ridge Legs dangling over strip-mine cliff Bigfoot on the ridge Torn-up dogs And night black as pitch [Verse 2] Beer cans clink by the dirt hill road Hunters talking low and close One saw eyes by the sledding hill One swore teeth like the gates of hell Old man Cayton lost three hounds Found one collar in the reeds Found one footprint in the clay Big as a pie plate, deep as grief [Pre-Chorus] Then the nights were quiet as death Unbelievable how nothing peeped Every one was was holding their breath Listening waiting for that haunting screech [Chorus] Bigfoot on the ridge Legs dangling over strip-mine cliff Bigfoot on the ridge Torn-up dogs And night black as pitch [Bridge] Something old lives up there 'Round that drowned-out mine Something huge keeps stalking Hanging back behind the tree line No man-shaped shadow in the dusk That shadow comes with feral musk [Final Chorus] Bigfoot on the ridge Legs dangling over strip-mine cliff Bigfoot on the ridge Torn-up dogs And night black as pitch... If you hear the hounds Don’t turn that way!!!
