No One Mourns the Wicked

Lyrics

[SOMEONE IN THE CROWD, spoken] Look! It's Glinda! [GLINDA] 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 conquеr evil?The truth we all bеlieve'll by and byOutlive a lie For you and— [SOMEONE IN THE CROWD] No one mourns the Wicked [ANOTHER PERSON] No one cries, "They won't return" [ALL] No 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 wickedYou'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 [CHILD IN THE CROWD, spoken] Miss Glinda Why does Wickedness happen? [GLINDA, spoken] That's a good questionAre people born Wicked?Or do they have Wickedness thrust upon them?After all, the Wicked Witch had a childhoodShe had a father, who by the way, had been appointed Governor of Munchkinland [FREXSPAR, spoken] I'm off to the assembly, dear [GLINDA, spoken] And she had a mother, as so many do [FREXSPAR] How I hate to go and leave you lonely [MELENA] That's alright, it's only just one night [FREXSPAR] But 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 beautyI'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 little swallow, little lady And follow me down [GLINDA, spoken] And one thing led to another, as it so often does [MELENA, spoken] No! [GLINDA, spoken] But from the moment the witch was born, she was, well, different [MIDWIFE, spoken] It's coming [FREXSPAR, spoken] Now? [MIDWIFE, spoken] The baby is coming [FREXSPAR, spoken] Oh, and how! [MIDWIFE] I see a nose [FREXSPAR] I see a curl [FREXSPAR & MIDWIFE] It's a healthy, perfect, lovely, little— [MIDWIFE, spoken] Oh! [FREXSPAR, spoken] Oh! Sweet Oz! Oh! [MIDWIFE] How can it be? [FREXSPAR] What does it mean? [MIDWIFE] It's uncanny [FREXSPAR] It's obscene [MIDWIFE & FREXSPAR] Like a froggy, ferny cabbage The baby is unnaturally [FREXSPAR]Green [ BABY crying. ] [FREXSPAR, spoken] Take it away Take it away! [GLINDA, spoken] And so, 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[GLINDA]Goodness knows[ALL]We know what Goodness is[GLINDA]Oh, ooh[ALL]Goodness knows the Wicked die alone[GLINDA]She died alone [ALL] Woe to those (Woe to those) Who spurn what GoodnessesThey are shown No one mourns the Wicked [GLINDA]Good news[ALL]No one mourns the Wicked[GLINDA]Good news[ALL]No one mourns the WickedWickedWicked