The Three Witches
Additional Vocals By Carol McWilliams & Eugene Nicks
Tale excerpts include: "Hansel And Gretel" And
"Snow White" By The
Brothers Grimm (First Published in 1812) And
"The Wizard Of Oz" By
Frank Baum (1900)
"Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead", By Harold Arlen (1939)
The old witch pushed
poor Gretel towards the oven, out of which the flames were already
shining. "Creep in!" said the witch. "And see if it's properly hot so
that the bread may be baked!" And Gretel once in the oven, the witch
meant to shut the door upon her and let her be baked. And then she
would have eaten her.
But Gretel perceived
her evil intention and said, "I don't know how to do it. How shall I
get in?" "Stupid, Goose!" said the old woman. "The opening's big
enough. Don't you see? I could get in there myself!" And she stooped
down and put her head in the oven's mouth.
Then Gretel gave her
a push, so that she went in farther, and she shut the iron door upon
her and put up the bar. (Witch screams) Oh, how frightfully she howled!
But Gretel ran away and left the wicked witch to burn miserably! Gretel
went straight to Hansel, opened the stable door and cried, "Hansel, we
are free! The old witch is dead!"
(Music Begins) Ding!
Dong! The witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding! Dong!
The wicked witch is dead! (Music ends)
But Snow White's
wicked stepmother was also bidden to the feast. And when she had
dressed herself in beautiful clothes, she went to her looking glass and
said, "Looking Glass upon the wall, who is the fairest of us all?" The
Looking Glass answered, "Oh, Queen! Although you are of beauty rare,
the young bride is a thousand times more fair!"
Then she railed and
cursed and was beside herself with disappointment and anger! First, she
thought she would not go to the wedding. But then, she felt she should
have no peace until she went and saw the bride for herself. And when
she saw her, she knew her for Snow White and could not stir from the
place for anger, vengeance and terror, for they had made ready, red-hot
iron shoes, in which she had to dance until she fell down DEAD!
(Music begins) Ding!
Dong! The witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding! Dong!
The wicked witch is dead! Wake up, you sleepy head! Rub your eyes! Get
out of bed! Wake up, the wicked witch is dead! (Music ends)
The wicked witch had
a great longing to have for her own, the silver shoes which the girl
always wore. The witch, finally, thought of a trick that would give her
what she wanted. She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the castle
floor, and then by her magic arts, made the iron invisible to human
eyes. So that when Dorothy walked across the floor, she stumbled over
the bar, not being able to see it and fell at full-length.
She was not much
hurt, but in her fall, one of the silver shoes came off. And before she
could reach it, the wicked witch had snatched it away and put it on her
own skinny foot. This made Dorothy so very angry that she picked up the
bucket of water that stood near and dashed it over the witch, wetting
her from head to toe. "Didn't you know water would be the end of me?"
asked the witch in a wailing, despairing voice.
With these words, the
wicked witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass and began to
spread over the clean boards of the castle floor. "I'm melting!
Melting! Aaaaaah!!" Then being at last free to do as she chose, Dorothy
ran out to the courtyard to tell the lion that the Wicked Witch of the
West had come to an end!
(Music begins) Ding!
Dong! The witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding! Dong!
The wicked witch is dead! Wake up, you sleepy head! Rub your eyes! Get
out of bed! Wake up, the wicked witch is dead! She's gone where the
goblins go below. Below, below! Yo-ho! Let's open up and sing and ring
the bells out! Ding! Dong! The Merry-O! Sing it high! Sing it low! Let
them know the wicked witch is dead! (Music ends)
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