One Short Day Lyrics

TOURISTS:
One short day
If you only have, if you only have
One short day
One short day in the Emerald City
One short day in the Emerald City
One short day, one short day, one short day, one short day
In the Emerald City
Emerald City
One short day in the Emerald City
One short day full of so much to do
Every way that you look in this city
There's something exquisite you'll want to visit
Before the day's through

ELPHABA:
There are buildings tall as Quoxwood trees

GLINDA:
Dress salons

ELPHABA:
And libraries

GLINDA:
Palaces

ELPHABA:
Museums

ELPHABA & GLINDA:
A hundred strong
There are wonders like I've never seen

GLINDA:
It's all grand

ELPHABA:
And it's all green

ELPHABA & GLINDA:
I think we've found the place where we belong
I wanna be in this hoi polloi

ELPHABA:
So I'll be back for good someday

GLINDA:
To make my life and make my way

ELPHABA & GLINDA:
But for today, we'll wander and enjoy

ALL:
One short day in the Emerald City
One short day to have a lifetime of fun
One short day

ELPHABA & GLINDA:
And we're warning the city
Now that we're in here
You'll know we've been here

ALL:
Before we are done

ANNOUNCER:
Presenting the absolute factual story of our wonderful Wizard of Oz
Starring the Emerald City players

PRESENTER:
Long, long ago, long before we can recall
There lived here in Oz the magical wise ones

WIZOMANIA CHOIR:
Ah, the magical wise ones

WIZOMANIA CHOIR & PRESENTER:
The wisest of them all

WIZOMANIA SINGER 1:
We will not live forever
That, I can foresee

WIZOMANIA SINGER 2:
So let us set all of our magic

WIZOMANIA SINGER 1:
In a strange and secret language

WIZOMANIA SINGER 1 & 2:
In a book

WIZOMANIA SINGER 2 & CHOIR:
The Grimmerie

WIZOMANIA CHOIR:
The Grimmerie

PRESENTER:
But time ticked ever onward day by day

WIZOMANIA CHOIR:
Oh

PRESENTER:
And all those who could read it passed away

WIZOMANIA CHOIR:
Oh

PRESENTER & WIZOMANIA CHOIR:
'Til one day, no one could

PRESENTER:
But the wise ones left a prophecy

WIZOMANIA SINGER 3:
In Oz's darkest hour
Though we cannot say when

WIZOMANIA SINGER 4:
There will come one with the power
To read the Grimmerie again

WIZOMANIA SINGER 3:
And Oz, which had been sad and blah

WIZOMANIA SINGER 4 & CHOIR:
Once more will sing a joyous

WIZOMANIA SINGER 3:
Oh

PRESENTER:
Look!
A man in a balloon arriving from the sky
Maybe he is here to fulfill the prophecy
But can he read the Grimmerie?

WIZOMANIA CHOIR:
This man who comes out of the blue
Is he the prophecy?

PRESENTER:
There's one way we'll know if it's true

PRESENTER & WIZOMANIA CHOIR (WIZOMANIA CHOIR):
Fetch the Grimmerie (THE GRIMMERIE)

WIZARD OF OZ:
Omaha
Omaha

WOMAN:
He can read it
He must be
A Wizard

WIZOMANIA CHOIR:
The prophecy fulfilled
What merriness he'll bring
Now every Ozian raise a voice and sing
And sing, and sing

WIZOMANIA SINGER 5:
Who's the mage whose major
Itinerary is making all Oz merrier?

WIZOMANIA SINGER 6:
Who's the sage who sagely
Sailed in to save our posteriors?

WIZOMANIA CHOIR:
Whose enthuse for hot-air ballooning
Has all of Oz honeymooning?
Ooh, isn't he wonderful?
Our wonderful Wizard

ELPHABA & GLINDA (WIZOMANIA CHOIR):
One short day (WHO'S THE MAGE WHOSE MAJOR)
In the Emerald City (ITINERARY IS MAKING ALL OZ MERRIER?)
One short day (WHO'S THE SAGE WHO SAGELY)
To have a lifetime of fun (SAILED IN TO SAVE OUR POSTERIORS?)

ALL:
What a way to be seeing the city

ELPHABA & GLINDA:
Where so many roam to
We'll call it home too
And then, just like now, we can say
We're just two friends

ELPHABA:
Two good friends

GLINDA:
Two best friends

ALL:
Sharing one wonderful
One short

GUARD:
The Wizard will see you now!

ALL:
Day