One Short Day (feat. Michael McCorry Rose)

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 this 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 our 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, the magical wise ones)

The wisest of them all

We will not live forever

That I can forsee

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

And all those who could read it passed away

Till 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 the power

To read The Grimmerie again

And Oz, which had been sad and blah

Once more will sing a joyous

Ah!

Look!

A man in a balloon, arriving from the sky!

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)

Omaha, Omaha

He can read it, he must be a wizard!

The prophecy fulfilled

What merryness he'll bring

Now every Ozian raise a 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 (Who's the mage whose major itinerary is making all Oz merrier?)

One short day to have a lifetime of fun (Who's the sage who sagely sailed in to save our posteriors?)

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!