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No One Mourns The Wicked

[CHILD, spoken]

Good news! The Witch, she's dead!

Come out, come out, she's gone!

 

[CITIZENS OF OZ]

Good news

She's dead

The Witch of the West is dead

The wickedest witch there ever was

The enemy of all of us here in Oz

Is dead

Good news

Good news

 

[SOMEONE IN THE CROWD, spoken]

Look! It's Glinda!

 

[GLINDA, spoken]

It's good to see me isn't it!

No need to respond, that was rhetorical.

Fellow Ozians

[sung] Let us be glad

Let us be grateful

Let us rejoicify that goodness could subdue

The wicked workings of you-know-who

Isn't it nice to know?

That good will conquеr evil?

The truth we all bеlieve'll by and by

Outlive a lie

For you and—

 

[SOMEONE IN THE CROWD]

No one mourns the Wicked

 

[ANOTHER PERSON]

No one cries, "They won't return"

 

[ALL]

No one lays a lily on their grave

 

[MAN]

The good man scorns the Wicked

 

[3 WOMEN]

Through their lives, our children learn

 

[ALL]

What we miss when we misbehave

​

[GLINDA]

And Goodness knows the Wicked's lives are lonely

Goodness knows the Wicked die alone

It just shows, when you're wicked

You're left only on your own

 

[ALL]

Yes, Goodness knows the Wicked's lives are lonely

Goodness knows the Wicked cry alone

Nothing grows for the Wicked

They reap only what they've sown

 

[CHILD IN THE CROWD, spoken]

Miss Glinda

Why does Wickedness happen?

 

[GLINDA, spoken]

That's a good question

Are people born Wicked?

Or do they have Wickedness thrust upon them?

After all, the Wicked Witch had a childhood

She had a father, who by the way, had been appointed Governor of Munchkinland

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP, spoken]

I'm off to the assembly, dear

 

[GLINDA, spoken]

And she had a mother, as so many do

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP]

How I hate to go and leave you lonely

 

[MELENA]

That's alright, it's only just one night

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP]

But know that you're here in my heart

While I'm out of your sight

 

[GLINDA, spoken]

And, like every family, they had their secrets

​

[LOVER]

Have another drink, my dark-eyed beauty

I've got one more night left here in town

So have another drink of green elixir

And we'll have ourselves a little mixer

Have another little swallow, little lady

And follow me down

​

[GLINDA, spoken]

But from the moment the witch was born, she was, well...

​

[MELENA Screams]

​

[GLINDA, continued, spoken]

...different

​

[MIDWIFE, spoken]

It's coming

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP, spoken]
Now?

 

[MIDWIFE, spoken]
The baby's coming

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP, spoken]
And how

 

[MIDWIFE, spoken]
I see a nose

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP, spoken]
I see a curl

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP & MIDWIFE]
It's a healthy, perfect, lovely, little 

​

[MIDWIFE ASSISTANT #1]
Sweet Oz

​

[MELENA, spoken]

What is it? What's wrong?

 

[MIDWIFE]

How can it be?

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP]
What does it mean?

 

[MIDWIFE]
It's atrocious

 

[MIDWIFE ASSISTANT #2]
It's obscene

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP & MIDWIFE]
Like a froggy, ferny cabbage
The baby is unnaturally

 

[ALL]
Green

 

[BABY crying.]

 

[GOVERNOR THROPP, spoken]

Take it away

Take it away!

 

[GLINDA, spoken]

So you see, it couldn't have been easy

 

[ALL]

No one mourns the Wicked

Now, at last, she's dead and gone

Now, at last, there's joy throughout the land

And Goodness knows

 

[GLINDA]

Goodness knows

 

[ALL]

We know what Goodness is

 

[GLINDA]

Oh, ooh

 

[ALL]

Goodness knows the Wicked die alone

​

[GLINDA]

She died alone

 

[ALL]

Woe to those (Woe to those)

Who spurn what Goodnesses

They are shown

No one mourns the Wicked

 

[GLINDA]

Good news

 

[ALL]

No one mourns the Wicked

 

[GLINDA]

Good news

 

[ALL]

No one mourns the Wicked

Wicked

Wicked

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