One Short Day

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 the city

There's something exquisite

You'll want to visit

Before the day's through

There are buildings tall as Quoxwood trees

Dress salons and libraries

Palaces, museums

A hundred strong

There are wonders like I've never seen

It's all grand and it's all green

I think we've found the place where we belong

I wanna be in this hoi polloi

So I'll be back for good someday

To make my life and make my way

But for today we'll wander and enjoy

One short day in the Emerald City

One short day to have a lifetime of fun

One short day

And we're warning the city

Now that we're in here

You'll know we've been here before we are done

(Presenting the absolute factual story of the wonderful Wizard of Oz)

(Starring the Emerald City players)

Long, long ago

Long before we can recall

There lived here in Oz

The magical wise ones

(Ah-ah-ah, the magical wise ones)

The wisest of them all

We will not live forever

That, I can foresee

So let us set down all our magic

In a strange and secret language

In a book, The Grimmerie (the Grimmerie)

But time ticked ever onward day by day (ah)

And all those who could read it passed away (ah)

'Til one day no one could

But the wise ones left a prophecy

In Oz's darkest hour

Though we cannot say when

There will come one with a power

To read The Grimmerie again

And Oz which had been sad and blah

Once more will sing a joyous "Ah!"

Look! (Ah)

A man in a balloon arriving from the sky! (Ah)

Maybe he is here to fulfill the prophecy!

But can he read The Grimmerie?

This man who comes out of the blue

Is he the prophecy?

There's one way we'll know if it's true!

Fetch The Grimmerie! (The Grimmerie)

Oh-ma-ha, oh-ma-ha

He can read it!

He must be-, a wizard!

The prophecy fulfilled

What merriness he'll bring

Now every Ozian raise their voice and sing

And sing

And sing

Who's the mage whose major itinerary is making all Oz merrier?

Who's the sage who sagely sailed in to save our posteriors?

Whose enthuse for hot air ballooning

Has all of Oz honeymooning? Ooh

Isn't he wonderful?

Our wonderful wizard

One short day in the Emerald City

One short day to have a lifetime of fun

What a way to be seeing the city

Where so many roam to

We'll call it home too

And then just like now we can say

We're just two friends

Two good friends

Two best friends

Sharing one wonderful

One short (the Wizard will see you now!)

Day