Wicked - One Short Day chords by Soundtracks

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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 likе I've never seen
C/E
It's all grand
    F/A
And it's all green
  Gsus                  G                Bbm  C
I think wе'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