The Ballad of Parsnip Flendercroft

"The Ballad of Parsnip Flendercroft" is a poem written by former Bovine Poet Laureate Michael Banyan to commemorate the achievements of former Bovine Farmer's Union bursar Parsnip Flendercroft. It is read in Episode 42 - The Ballad Of Parsnip Flendercroft and provides the title for the episode.

Poem
Why, why, Hyundai why

Why oh why, Hyundai

You said goodbye and you made us cry

Reversing your Hyundai

Parsnip, Parsnip, what can I say

You saw the world and cursed it

You got in your Hyundai gray

And then with rage, reversed it

Like an arrow seeking out its quiver

Like a salmon in a hatchback reversing upriver

An onion enrobed in hot beef liver

You made our hearts a-quiver

Why, why, Hyundai why

Why oh why, Hyundai

Parsnip Parsnip who was it for

You couldn't have rehearsed it

You wanted us to see the way

Is that why you reversed it?

Did you want us to see things the wrong way around

Like an upside-down hook

Or a Japanese book

You taught us a new way to look

Can an apple float back into a tree,

Can a noodle return to its packet,

Can you re-find A once you've gone to Z

Can a cow be made from a jacket?

Why, why, Hyundai why,

Why oh why, Hyundai,

Now Parsnip you're high and dry

Reversing your way across the sky

You'll reverse it, my friend all the way to Shanghai

In your four-door hatchback grey Hyundai