The Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps

"The Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps" is the first original song heard in the film, Pooh's Heffalump Movie. It is performed by Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, and Eeyore (mostly Rabbit and Tigger) as a direct response to Roo's question, "What's a Heffalump?".
A reprise of the song is sung when Pooh and his friends enter the Heffalump Hollow.
==Background==
In the song, they outline the many horrendous qualities that they believe Heffalumps to have, such as that they have "fiery eyes and a tail with a spike" and that "they'll steal all your honey and eat your last crust." At the end of the song, Pooh and the others crouch together, thoroughly terrified, but the song only excites Roo, who decides that he wants to try to catch one. Later in the film, they all learned that none of these things that they believed about Heffalumps were true, though Roo was the first to find out. He discusses many of the supposed attributes of Heffalumps that he heard in the song and Lumpy says that none of them are true, though likes the idea of a tail with a spike.
==Theme==
This song and the visuals that go with it likely drew inspiration from the classic Pooh song "Heffalumps and Woozles," though due to its somewhat whimsical nature, the images actually presented in "The Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps" are rather less scary by comparison. The characters perform the song with a group of three backing vocalists: Randy Crenshaw, Rick Logan, and Bobbi Page. The music for the song was written by Carly Simon, the lyrics by Brian Hohlfeld and the song was co-arranged by Martin Erskine and David Slonaker.
==Lyrics==
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First version=
Rabbit: Everyone knows what a Heffalump's like
Tigger: It's got fiery eyes and a tail with a spike
Rabbit: With claws on its paws that are sharp as a tack
Tigger: And wing-a-ma-things coming out of its back
Roo: Out of its back?
Rabbit: Well of course, Roo. Precisely.
Tigger: Exac-tically! 'Cause its bottom is up and its top’s really down
Rabbit: So its nose is its tail or the other way 'round
Tigger: Yeah, and it's wide as a river and tall as a tree
Rabbit: Imagine gigantic
Tigger: And times it by three
Rabbit: It clomps here and there
Tigger: And it stomps to and fro
Rabbit: It's got three horns above
Tigger: And eleven below!
Piglet: And those are its good points
Pooh: There's much more to know
All: About the dreadfully dreaded
Thoroughly three-headed
Horribly hazardous Heffalumps
Roo: Wow! Neat
Rabbit: Neat? It is most certainly not neat
Rabbit: Everyone knows that they lurk and they creep
Tigger: The best time to see one is when it's asleep
Rabbit: If you sneak up behind it and get it to jump
Tigger: You can tell which part's heffa
Rabbit: And which part is lump!
Chorus: They'll steal all your honey and eat your last crust
They'll stomp on your house till it's nothing but dust
The worst part of all is
Roo: They’re different from us?
All: They're the dreadfully dreaded
Thoroughly three-headed
Fiercely ferociously
Mostly atrociously
Horribly hazardous...
...Heffalumps
|-|Reprise=
Rabbit: No time to lose, chin up, tally ho
We’ll never stop till those Heffalumps go!
Tigger: The best Heffa-quest, you’ll ever know...
All: They’re the dreadfully dreaded
Thoroughly three-headed
Horribly hazardous Heffalumps
They’re dreadfully dreaded
Thoroughly three-headed
Rabbit: Massively monstrously
Tigger: Unbearably scare-ably
All: Horribly hazardous Heffalumps!
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==Trivia==
*The version of the song presented on the album The Best of Pooh & Heffalumps, Too includes an extra opening verse in which Carly Simon performs the same lines which are sung by Rabbit and Tigger regarding how "everyone knows what a Heffalump's like." Additionally, while in the film Roo phrases the line "They're different from us?" as a spoken question, in the soundtrack release, he sings it without a questioning tone.
==Gallery==
Pooh's Heffalump Movie - Heffalumps from the Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps Song - 1.jpg
Pooh's Heffalump Movie - Heffalumps from the Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps Song - 2.jpg
Pooh's Heffalump Movie - Heffalumps from the Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps Song - 3.jpg
Pooh's Heffalump Movie - Heffalumps from the Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps Song - 6.jpg|"Imagine gigantic..."
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