CITIZENS OF OZ
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Ev'ry day, more wicked!
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Ev'ry day, the terror grows!
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All of Oz is ever on alert!
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That's the way with Wicked -
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Spreading fear where e'er she goes
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Seeking out new victims she can hurt!
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A HYSTERICAL WOMAN
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Like some terrible green blizzard
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Throughout the land she flies:
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AN OUTRAGED MAN
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Defaming our poor Wizard
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With her calumnies and lies!
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ALL
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She lies!
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Save us from the Wicked!
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Shield us so we won't be hexed!
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Give us warning:
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Where will she strike next?
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Where will she strike next?
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Where will she strike next!?
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GLINDA
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(spoken) Fellow Ozians - as terrifying as terror is, let us put
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aside our panic for this one day: and celebrate!
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(sung) Oh what a celebration
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We'll have today
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CROWD
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Thank Goodness!
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GLINDA
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Let's have a celebration
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The Glinda way!
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CROWD
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Thank Goodness!
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MORRIBLE
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Fin'lly a day that's
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Totally Wicked-Witch free!
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CROWD
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We couldn't be happier
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Thank Goodness!
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GLINDA
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Yes -
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We couldn't be happier,
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Right, dear?
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Couldn't be happier
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Right here
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Look what we've got
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A fairy-tale plot
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Our very own happy ending
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Where we couldn't be happier -
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True, dear?
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Couldn't be happier
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And we're happy to share
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Our ending vicariously
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With all of you
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He couldn't look handsomer
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I couldn't feel humbler
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We couldn't be happier
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Because happy is what happens
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When all your dreams come true!
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MORRIBLE(spoken) And Glinda dear, we're happy for you! As Press
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Secretary, I have striven to ensure that all of Oz
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knows the story of your braverism:
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(sung) The day you were first summoned
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To an audience with OzAnd although he would not tell you why initially
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When you bowed before his throne
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He decreed you'd hence be known
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As Glinda the Good - officially!
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Then with a jealous squeal
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The Wicked Witch burst from concealment
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Where she had been lurking -surrpetitially!
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PEOPLE IN CROWD
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I hear she has an extra eye
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That always remains awake
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I hear that she can shed her skin
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As easily as a snake!
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I hear some rebel Animals
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Are giving her food and shelter!
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I hear her soul is so unclean
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Pure water can melt her!
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FIYERO
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What!?
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CROWD
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Melt her!?
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Please - somebody go and melt her!
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FIYERO
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(spoken) Do you hear that - water will melt her?! People
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are so empty-headed, they'll believe anything!
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GLINDA
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(spoken) Fiyero! Oh - yes, thanks plenty, dearest! He's gone to
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fetch me a refreshment. He's so thoughtful that way!
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(sung) That's why I couldn't be happier
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No, I couldn't be happier
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Though it is, I admit
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The tiniest bit
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Unlike I anticipated
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But I couldn't be happier
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Simply couldn't be happier
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(spoken) Well - not "simply":
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(sung) 'Cause getting your dreams
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It's strange, but it seems
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A little - well - complicated
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There's a kind of a sort of : cost
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There's a couple of things get: lost
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There are bridges you cross
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You didn't know you crossed
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Until you've crossed
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And if that joy, that thrill
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Doesn't thrill you like you think it will
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Still -
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With this perfect finale
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The cheers and ballyhoo
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Who
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Wouldn't be happier?
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So I couldn't be happier
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Because happy is what happens
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When all your dreams come true
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Well, isn't it?
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Happy is what happens
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When your dreams come true!
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CROWD
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We love you, Glinda, if we may be so frank
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GLINDA
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Thank Goodness!
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CROWD
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For all this joy, we know who we've got to thank:
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Thank Goodness!
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That means the Wizard, Glinda:
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GLINDA
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And fiance!
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CROWD
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They couldn't be goodlier
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She couldn't be lovelier
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We couldn't be luckier
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GLINDA
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I couldn't be happier
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CROWDThank Goodness:
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GLINDA AND CROWD
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Today!
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Thank Goodness for today!
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Thank Goodness
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| Kristin Chenoweth |
