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      MIDWIFEIt's coming      FATHERNow?      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?      MIDWIFEHow can it be?      FATHER   What does it mean?      MIDWIFE   It's atrocious      FATHERIt'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:      ALLWoe to those    Who spurn what Goodness   They are shown   No one mourns the Wicked      GLINDA   Good news!   CROWD   No one mourns the Wicked!      GLINDAGood news!      ALL   No one mourns the Wicked!   Wicked!   Wicked!