Verse 1

Born where the east wind meets the 1930’s glow

Peking’s halls where her healing dreams would grow

When the world cried out, trapped in malaria’s hold

She answered the call, brave and bold

Pre-Chorus

2,000 texts, ancient lines she’d decode

280,000 plants, every leaf she’d road-test slow

Committed, patient, through each trial’s haze

Chasing a cure for the world’s weary days

Chorus

Oh Tu Youyou, with wormwood in your hand

You unlocked the cure, across every land

Artemisinin, vital, true, and bright

Saving a million lives in the dead of night

Against all odds, your grit never bent

Talent and effort, where the healing went

Verse 2

Hainan’s fields where the fever raged on

She walked the villages, where the sick ones drawn

Dried leaves failed, boiling tried in vain

But she wouldn’t let defeat claim her name

Pre-Chorus

Re-reading scrolls, a clue in a verse so old

“Boiling destroys what the wormwood holds”

She changed the way, let the liquid breathe free

And the cure emerged, to set the captives free

Chorus

Oh Tu Youyou, with wormwood in your hand

You unlocked the cure, across every land

Artemisinin, vital, true, and bright

Saving a million lives in the dead of night

Against all odds, your grit never bent

Talent and effort, where the healing went

Bridge

2015, the Nobel Prize came home

For a life spent healing, not for fame to roam

From China’s roots to the world’s wide stage

Your legacy burns through every age

Outro

Committed, patient, a light that never fades

In every life your medicine saves

Oh Tu Youyou, your name will ever stand

A hero of health, across the land ✨