Return of the Giant Hogweed

[Instrumental Intro 00:00-00:34]

[Verse 1]

Turn and run!

Nothing can stop them

Around every river and canal their power is growing

Stamp them out!

We must destroy them

They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour

[Refrain]

They are invincible

They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering

[Middle Eight]

Long ago in the Russian hills

A Victorian explorer found the regal Hogweed by a marsh

He captured it and brought it home

Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge

Royal beast did not forget

He came home to London

And made a present of the Hogweed

To the Royal Gardens at Kew

[Verse 2]

Waste no time!

They are approaching

Hurry now, we must protect ourselves and find some shelter

Strike by night!

They are defenceless

They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom

[Refrain]

Still they're invincible

Still they're immune to all our herbicidal battering

[Middle Eight]

Fashionable country gentlemen

Had some cultivated wild gardens

In which they innocently planted

The Giant Hogweed throughout the land

Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge

Royal beast did not forget

Soon they escaped, spreading their seed

Preparing for an onslaught, threatening the human race

[Instrumental Break 04:06-06:31]

[Outro]

Mighty Hogweed is avenged

Human bodies soon will know our anger

Kill them with your Hogweed hairs

Heracleum Mantegazziani

Giant Hogweed lives

[Instrumental Outro]