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Genesis: The Return of the Giant Hogweed
From: Nursery Cryme
Copyright 1971 Yellow Dog Music
Written by Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford
Transcribed by Macahan (the_unifaun@hotmail.com) and Nick Rose
...as played on Genesis Live
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Play each [bracket] 4 times
Notation: + = tap, p = pull off from tap, h = hammer on
GUITAR:
tapping on A string,
+ p h + p h etc.
[ 10 3 6 11 3 6 ] [ 10 2 5 11 2 5 ] [ 10 1 4 11 1 4 ]
then tapping on low E string,
+ p + p + p
[ 15 5 8 ] [ 15 4 8 ] [ 15 3 15 3 15 3]
SYNTH: the synth plays the exact same thing but one octave higher
0:39It's hard to hear poor Hackett here, but he's playing something like the bass|---------------------------------------777--------7\--7---------11-11-11-14\||-5---3h5-8-7-333h5----3h5-8-7-3--12\---------4h5h7------4h5h7-7\------------||--3h5--------------3h5----------5/--5-5---5----------5----------------------||----------------------------------------------------------------------------|Turn and run!Nothing can stop them!Around every river and canal their power is growing.
|----------------------------------------777--------7\--7-----------||--5---3h5-8-7-333h5----3h5-8-7-3--12\---------4h5h7------4h5h7-7\--||---3h5--------------3h5----------5/--5-5---5----------5------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|Stamp them out!We must destroy them!They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour.
1:04|--9-9-9-9-8-8-6h8-6h8-8--9-9-9-9-8-8-6h8-6h8-8--||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------|They are invincible. They are immune to all our
|--6tr9-9-8-8-5tr8-8-5tr8-8-------------------------------||----------------------------6-4---6-4--------------8-----||--------------------------------6-----6-5--------7--8p7--||--------------------------------------------5h7h8--------||---------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------| herbicidal battering.
Gm Cm F Bb Dm C
Long ago in the Russian hills,
Dm Gm Cm C F
A Victorian explorer found the regal Hogweed by a marsh.
1:40|-------------------------7---7---7---7-3333333333--||--10p7-10p7-10p7-10p7---8-8-8-8-8-8-8--3333333333--||------7----7----7----7-7---7---7---7---4444444444--||---------------------------------------5555555555--||---------------------------------------5555555555--||---------------------------------------3333333333--|He captured it and brought it home.
|----------------------12\\--------7///------12///--||--7-8-5-7-3-5-1~---------2~---------------7//------||---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------|Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge.
|--------------||--9-8---7-6---||-----8-----6--||--------------||--------------||--------------|Royal beast did not forget.
Dm Gm Cm
He came home to London
C F G GGGGGGGGGGGG
And made a present of the Hogweed to the Royal Gardens at Kew.
|---------------------------------------777--------7\--7---------11-11-11-14\||-5---3h5-8-7-333h5----3h5-8-7-3--12\---------4h5h7------4h5h7-7\------------||--3h5--------------3h5----------5/--5-5---5----------5----------------------||----------------------------------------------------------------------------|Waste no time!They are approaching!Hurry now, we must protect ourselves and find some shelter.
|----------------------------------------777--------7\--7-----------||--5---3h5-8-7-333h5----3h5-8-7-3--12\---------4h5h7------4h5h7-7\--||---3h5--------------3h5----------5/--5-5---5----------5------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|Strike by night!They are defenseless!They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom.
|--9-9-9-9-8-8-6h8-6h8-8--9-9-9-9-8-8-6h8-6h8-8--||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------|Still they're invincible. Still they're immune to all our
|--6tr9-9-8-8-5tr8-8-5tr8-8-------------------------------||----------------------------6-4---6-4--------------8-----||--------------------------------6-----6-5--------7--8p7--||--------------------------------------------5h7h8--------||---------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------| herbicidal battering.
Gm Cm F Bb Dm C Dm Gm Cm
Fashionable country gentlemen had some cultivated wild gardens
C F
In which they innocently planted
|-------------------------7---7---7---7-3333333333--||--10p7-10p7-10p7-10p7---8-8-8-8-8-8-8--3333333333--||------7----7----7----7-7---7---7---7---4444444444--||---------------------------------------5555555555--||---------------------------------------5555555555--||---------------------------------------3333333333--|the Giant Hogweed throughout the land.
|---------------------------------------14\\//-//--||--7-8-5-7-3-5-1~------1010-----2///---------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------|Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge.
|--------------||--9-8---7-6---||-----8-----6--||--------------||--------------||--------------|Royal beast did not forget.
Dm Gm Cm C F
Soon they escaped, spreading their seed, preparing for an onslaught,
G GGGGGGGGGGGG
Threatening the human race.
4:17 _____________ Flute+guitar solo/THE DANCE OF THE GIANT HOGWEED | 1.|-------------------------------------------------------------------------||.------3--3---------------------------2223~--3p0----3--2223~--3p1-------.||--0h2h3--3---2-3--0-2------------3-2~----------2p0----------------3p2p0--||.---------------------3-5---0h3h5----------------2p0--------------------.||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
4:41___________| 2.|--9-9-9-9-8-8-6h8-6h8-8--9-9-9-9-8-8-6h8-6h8-8--||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------|
|--6tr9-9-8-8-6h8-6h8-8--6tr9-9-8-8---------------||-----------------------------------10p8--10p8----||---------------------------------------10----10--||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
4:58|----8~-----11-----------------8~-----11---------||---8---------13--------------8---------13-------||--9------------13-----------9------------13-----||-----------------13~------10---------------13~--||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------|
5:22|--11--8-10-------/11--8-10--------/11--8-10---------------||----------11~-------------11~--------------8~-9-9/11-11~--||----------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------|
6:03|-------------------20------------------------||----------13/18-/20--20\13-------------------||--12-13-15------------------10------10-------||---------------------------------------------||-------------------------------8888----8888--||---------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------18--------------18----16-13\8------------||-----11-------11-----11/16--/18/20--18----18/20-18---20--------------------||--/8---10--/8---10---------------------------------------------1010101010--||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--11~\8/10\6~---11~\8/10--------------||--------------------------------------||-----------------------------8--------||----------------------------6-----10--||---------------------------------8----||--------------------------------------|
6:31|------------------|-------------------------||--9-8-9-6-8---6-8-|-13-11-13----11------11--||------------8-----|----------13----12-13----||------------------|-------------------------||--------x2--------|-----------x2------------||------------------|-------------------------|Mighty Hogweed is avenged.Human bodies soon will know our anger.
|------------------|--------------------------------------------------||--9-8-9-6-8---6-8-|-13-11-13----11------11---12-11-12----11------11--||------------8-----|----------13----12-13--------------13----12-13----||------------------|--------------------------------------------------||--------x2--------|--------------------------------------------------||------------------|--------------------------------------------------|Kill them with your Hogweed hairs.HERACLEUM MANTEGAZZIANI.
D C# G#m
Giant Hogweed lives.
F# G#m Bb C# F# D E F#m G# G Bb Eb
Bb C D C# D# F Bb C D C# G#m
F# G#m Bb C# F# D E F#m G# G Bb Eb
Bb C D C# D# F C# D# F C# D# F F~~~
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7~ hold (longer than other notes)
7h9 hammer-on
9p7 pull-off
7(9) bend
(9)7 release
(9)r release
7/9 slide up
9\7 slide down
<7> natural harmonics
7tr9 trill
