I know, this isn't Too Young to Die Old! I'm sorry! But, as you may have guessed from my reference to it in TYtDO, I am OBSESSED with Hamilton right now! So I ... Ozified the opening song. Basically, this is if Lin-Manuel Miranda had been the composer for Wicked instead of Stephan Schwartz.
Enjoy!
Dorothy:
How does a bastard, green girl, daughter of a whore and a
Humbug, delivered through a forgotten
Childhood in Munchkinland, forced to hide her talents without a glitch
Grow up to be a hated wicked witch?
/
Glinda:
The mother of Animal rights without a mother
Got a lot farther by workin' a lot harder
By bein' a lot smarter
By bein' a self-starter
By eighteen, they promised her a job in the Wizard's charter
/
Nessarose:
And every day while Pigs were being slaughtered and carted
Away across the fields, she struggled and kept her guard up
Inside, she was longing for something to be a part of
My sister was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter
/
Madame Morrible:
Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned
Our girl saw her future drip, drippin' down the drain
Put a pencil to her temple, connected it to her brain
And she wrote her first refrain, a testament to her pain
/
Dorothy:
Well the word got around, they said, "This witch is insane, man!"
Riled up the Gale Force just to send her to the Promised Land
They wanted her head on a platter, they forgot from whence she came, and
The world forgot her name!
What's your name, girl?
/
Elphaba:
Elphaba M. Thropp.
My name is Elphaba M. Thropp.
And there's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait, just you wait
/
Fiyero:
When she was two, her mother died, full of drugs, in labor
Two years later, see Elphie and her sis, crippled,
Both disgraced, sittin' in their own shame
The tension thick
/
All:
And Elphie got better but her sister never did
/
Doctor Dillamond:
Went to see the Wizard, the Wizard wasn't what met the eye
Left her with nothin' but ruined pride, somethin' new inside
A voice saying "Elphie, you gotta fend for yourself"
She started retreatin' and readin' every spell book on the shelf
/
Dorothy:
There would've been nothin' left to do
For someone less astute
She would've been dead or destitute
Without a cent of restitution
Started workin', clerkin' for the Animal campaign lords
Rememberin' things she could no longer afford:
Scammin' for every book she can get her hands on
Plannin' for the future, see her now as she stands on
The back of a carriage headed for a new land
At Shiz, you can be a new woman
/
All and (Elphaba):
At Shiz, you can be a new woman (Just you wait)
At Shiz, you can be a new woman (Just you wait)
At Shiz, you can be a new woman
/
WOMEN:
At Shiz!
/
MEN:
At Shiz!
/
Elphaba:
Just you wait!
/
All:
Elphaba M. Thropp,
We are waiting in the wings for you
You could never back down
You never learned to take your time
Oh, Elphaba M. Thropp
When Oz now sings for you
Will they know what you overcame?
Will they know you rewrote the game?
The world will never be the same, oh
/
Dorothy:
The carriage is in the port now, see if you can spot her
Another student tryin' to be a starter
Her enemies destroyed her rep, the land of Oz forgot her
/
Wizard & Madame Morrible:
We fought with her
/
Nessarose:
Me? I cared for her
/
Glinda:
Me? I trusted her
/
Fiyero:
Me? I loved her
/
Dorothy:
And me? I'm the damn fool that melted her!
/
All:
There's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait
/
Dorothy:
What's your name, girl?
/
All:
Elphaba M. Thropp!
Yep. You just read that. Uh-huh. I know I'm not as good a rapper as Lin, but I tried. And I needed to get that out of my system.
Hope you liked it! Thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Elle Dottore