[00:33.98]Turn and run nothing can stop them
[00:39.20]Around every river and canal their power is growing
[00:48.06]Stamp them out we must destroy them
[00:53.27]They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odor
[01:01.48]They are invincible
[01:04.74]They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering
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[01:19.08]Long ago in the Russian hills
[01:24.62]A Victorian explorer found
[01:29.77]The regal hogweed by a marsh
[01:34.02]He captured it and brought it home
[01:40.36]
[01:46.13]Botanical creature stirs seeking revenge
[01:55.21]Royal beast did not forget
[02:00.99]He came home to London
[02:04.89]And made a present of the hogweed
[02:10.07]To the royal gardens at Kew
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[02:23.03]Waste no time they are approaching
[02:28.26]Hurry now we must protect ourselves and find some shelter
[02:37.26]Strike by night they are defenseless
[02:42.61]They all need the sun to photo sensitize their venom
[02:50.56]Still they're invincible
[02:53.90]Still they're immune to all our herbicidal battering
[02:59.37]
[03:08.32]Fashionable country gentlemen
[03:13.95]Had some cultivated wild gardens
[03:19.30]In which they innocently planted
[03:23.72]The giant hogweed throughout the land
[03:29.52]
[03:35.45]Botanical creature stirs seeking revenge
[03:44.47]Royal beast did not forget
[03:50.28]Soon they escaped spreading their seed
[03:55.03]Preparing for an onslaught
[03:59.18]Threatening the human race
[04:04.82]
[06:30.25]Mighty hogweed is avenged
[06:33.50]Human bodies soon will know anger
[06:43.20]Kill them with your hogweed hairs
[06:46.38]Heracleun mantegazzani
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