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Intro:
G# C# F#
B E
G C A Dm
D# A B
A
A
One short day
G
If you only have, if you only have one short day
D G
One short day in the Emerald City
C
One short day in the Emerald City
F# E D
One short day, one short day, one short day, one short day
F# B E
In the Emerald City
F# B E
Emerald City
Chorus:
F# B E
One short day in the Emerald City
F# G#m C#
One short day full of so much to do
F# B E
Every way that you look in this city
B D#m
There's something exquisite you'll want to visit
C# F# B F#
Before the day's through
Verse 2:
D G/B
There are buildings tall as Quoxwood trees
A/C#
Dress salons
D
And libraries
Bb
Palaces
Museums
F/A
A hundred strong
F Bb/D
There are wonders likΠ΅ I've never seen
C/E
It's all grand
F/A
And it's all green
Gsus G Bbm C
I think wΠ΅'ve found the place where we belong
Am Bb Am Bb
I wanna be in this hoi polloi
Gm Am
So I'll be back for good someday
Bb
To make my life and make my way
Gm C
But for today, we'll wander and enjoy
Chorus:
F# B E
One short day in the Emerald City
F# G#m C#
One short day to have a lifetime of fun
F#
One short day
D#m C#
And we're warning the city
F#/Bb B
Now that we're in here
D#m7
You'll know we've been here
G#m D
Before we are done
Verse 2:
C
Presenting the absolute factual story of our wonderful Wizard of Oz
D
Starring the Emerald City players
G Am
Long, long ago, long before we can recall
F Bm Em
There lived here in Oz the magical wise ones
C C/E
Ah, the magical wise ones
Am D E C#
The wisest of them all
C#
We will not live forever
D#m/C#
That I can foresee
B
So let us set all of our magic
C#/F Bbm
In a strange and secret language
D#m
In a book
D#
The Grimmerie
Cm
The Grimmerie
Fm Cm
But time ticked ever onward day by day
Oh
Fm C
And all those who could read it passed away
Oh
F/A Fm Cm
'Til one day, no one could
Bb D
But, the wise ones left a prophecy
D
In Oz's darkest hour
G
Though we cannot say when
Em7
There will come one with the power
D#
To read the Grimmerie again
G#
And Oz, which had been sad and blah
Once more will sing a joyous
Oh
Verse 3:
C
Look!
A man in a balloon arriving from the sky
D
Maybe, he is here to fulfill the prophecy
But can he read the Grimmerie?
G#
This man who comes out of the blue
D#
Is he the prophecy?
G#m
There's one way we'll know if it's true
Bb5
Fetch the Grimmerie (The Grimmerie)
Omaha
Omaha
B
He can read it
E
He must be
Bb
A Wizard
D#
The prophecy fulfilled
G#
What merriness he'll bring
D# G#
Now every Ozian raise a voice and sing
D#m7 Bb7
And sing, and sing
G
Who's the mage whose major
Am7 D7
Itinerary is making all Oz merrier?
G
Who's the sage who sagely
Cm
Sailed in to save our posteriors?
G D#m
Whose enthuse for hot-air ballooning
G E7
Has all of Oz honeymooning?
A7 D7
Ooh, isn't he wonderful?
D
Our wonderful Wizard
Chorus:
G
One short day (Who's the mage whose major)
Am D
In the Emerald City (Itinerary is making all Oz merrier )
G
One short day (Who's the sage who sagely)
Em Am
To have a lifetime of fun (Sailed in to save our posteriors )
Outro:
G Cm B C
What a way to be seeing the city
G C G C
Where so many roam to
G Em
We'll call it home, too
Am B7 D# G
And then, just like now, we can say
C
We're just two friends
G
Two good friends
Gm
Two best friends
Am
Sharing one wonderful
F D
One short
The Wizard will see you now!
G Bm C G
Day
Song History
Published: January 2, 2025
Last Updated: January 2, 2025