No One Mourns The Wicked

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) 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 conquer evil? The truth we all believe'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!" ALLNo one lays a lily on their grave MAN The good man scorns the Wicked! 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 GLINDA(spoken) Are people born Wicked? Or do they have Wickedness thrust upon them? After all, she had a father. She had a mother, as so many do... FATHER How I hate to go and leave you lonely MOTHER That's alright - it's only just one night FATHERBut 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 swallow, little lady, And follow me down... GLINDA (spoken) And of course, from the moment she was born, she was - well - different MIDWIFE It's coming FATHER Now? MIDWIFE The baby's coming FATHER And how! MIDWIFE AND FATHER I see a nose I see a curl It's a healthy, perfect, Lovely, little - FATHER (spoken) Sweet Oz! MOTHER (spoken) What is it? What's wrong? MIDWIFE (Sung) How can it be? FATHER What does it mean? MIDWIFE It's atrocious FATHER It's obscene! MIDWIFE AND FATHER Like a froggy, ferny cabbage The baby is unnaturally ALL Green! FATHER (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 We know what Goodness is Goodness knows The Wicked die alone GLINDA She died alone... ALL Woe to those Who spurn what Goodness They are shown No one mourns the Wicked GLINDA Good news! CROWD No one mourns the Wicked! GLINDA Good news! ALL No one mourns the Wicked! Wicked! Wicked!