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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) Intro: Am Em Am Em Am B Cm B Em B E G#m F#m B E D#m G#m G B F# E F# G A Good news! The Witch, she's dead! Come out, come out, she's gone! Verse 1: E Good news
She's dead
N.C.
The Witch of the West is dead
B
The wickedest witch there ever was
The enemy of all of us here in Oz
B
Is dead
Good news
D
Good news
B
Look! It's Glinda!
Verse 2:
B
Let us be glad
D
Let us be grateful
E D
Let us rejoicify that goodness could subdue
The wicked workings of you-know-who
E
Isn't it nice to know?
D E
That good will conquеr evil?
D E D Bm
The truth we all bеlieve'll by and by
D
Outlive a lie
For you and—
Chorus:
F#m D
No one mourns the Wicked
F#m D
No one cries, "They won't return"
E Bm F#m
No one lays a lily on their grave
D
The good man scorns the Wicked
F#m D
Through their lives, our children learn
E Bm D C#
What we miss when we misbehave
A
And Goodness knows the
G#m7 C#m7
Wicked's lives are lonely
A G#m7 C#m7
Goodness knows the Wicked die alone
F#m
It just shows, when you're wicked
D C#m
You're left only on your own
A
Yes, Goodness knows the
G#m7 C#m7
Wicked's lives are lonely
A G#m7 C#m7
Goodness knows the Wicked cry alone
F#m
Nothing grows for the Wicked
D G# F#
They reap only what they've sown
Instrumental:
G#
Miss Glinda
F#
Why does Wickedness happen?
G#
That's a good question
F# G#
Are people born Wicked?
F#
Or do they have Wickedness thrust upon them?
G#
After all, the Wicked Witch had a childhood
D G
She had a father, who by the way,
C G
had been appointed Governor of Munchkinland
C
I'm off to the assembly, dear
G C G C7
And she had a mother, as so many do
Verse 2:
G
How I hate to go and leave you lonely
G C7
That's alright, it's only just one night
Bm7 A7
But know that you're here in my heart
D7 G
While I'm out of your sight
A E
And, like every family, they had their secrets
A
Have another drink, my dark-eyed beauty
I've got one more night left here in town
D A E A
So have another drink of green elixir
B E
And we'll have ourselves a little mixer
C#m B7
Have another little swallow, little lady
E A
And follow me down
Verse 3:
N.C.
And one thing led to another,
as it so often does
N.C.
No!
E
But from the moment the witch was born,
she was, well, different
A
It's coming
Now?
E
The baby is coming
Oh, and how!
I see a nose
Bm
I see a curl
E
It's a healthy, perfect, lovely, little—
D
Oh!
Am
Oh! Sweet Oz! Oh!
C#m
How can it be?
What does it mean?
It's uncanny
It's obscene
Like a froggy, ferny cabbage
G#m
The baby is unnaturally
G
Green
F C#m
Take it away
Gm
Take it away!
And so, it couldn't have been easy
Chorus:
Am F
No one mourns the Wicked
Am F
Now, at last, she's dead and gone
G Dm D E
Now, at last, there's joy throughout the land
Em Bm
And Goodness knows
C Am
Goodness knows
Bm Em
We know what Goodness is
Oh, ooh
C Am Bm
Goodness knows the Wicked die alone
Em
She died alone
Am
Woe to those (Woe to those)
F
Who spurn what Goodnesses
D
They are shown
Em
No one mourns the Wicked
Outro:
C Em C
Good news
Em
No one mourns the Wicked
C Em
Good news
Bb
No one mourns the Wicked
E Bb
Wicked
E
Wicked
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