album: Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
genre: Musical

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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!

Ozian:
Look! It's Glinda!

Glinda:
Fellow Ozians--
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--

Man:
No one mourns the Wicked!

Woman:
No one cries "They won't return!"

Ozians:
No one lays a lily on their grave.

Man:
The good man scorns the Wicked!

Women:
Through their lives, our children learn--

Ozians:
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.

Ozians:
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 sow.

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.

Father: 
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]
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: 
I see a nose--

Father: 
I see a curl-- 

Midwife & Father:
It's a healthy, 
Perfect, 
Lovely, little-- 

Midwife: 
[Screams] 

Father: [Spoken]
Sweet Oz! 

Mother: [Spoken]
What is it? what's wrong? 

Midwife: 
How can it be? 

Father: 
What does it mean? 

Midwife: 
It's atrocious. 

Father: 
It's obscene! 

Midwife & 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! 

Ozians:
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

Men:                                       Women:
Woe to those                           Woe to those

Ozians:
Who spurn what Goodnesses
They are shown.
No one mourns the Wicked!

Glinda:
Good news!

Ozians:
No one mourns the Wicked!

Glinda:
Good news!

All:
No one mourns 
The Wicked!
Wicked!
Wicked!

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