Water and the Wicked Witch of the West

[drewtwo99]

Originally Posted by Inner Stickler

No, but it's opened up several other avenues of questioning, like, what, exactly, is a slitch, how can a kitchen take one, how does Dorothy know the witch was thumbing for a hitch, and why would someone with what seems like a perfectly serviceable mode of transportation be hitchhiking anyway?

Thanks IS, the new generation of Oz conspiracy theories can begin in earnest.

[Powers]

Originally Posted by qazwart

You can catch the lyrics in this Youtube video. The relevant words begin around the fifty second mark. Most of the Youtube clips start right after that point.

They did sound familiar, but I couldn't find a video of that section of the song. Thanks for finding it!


Powers &8^]

[Ludovic]

Originally Posted by njtt

Emerald ... colorless ... glaringly obvious ... right...

It was a many-fauceted scarlet emerald?

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by John W. Kennedy

No, those lyrics are from “Something sort of grandish” from Finian’s Rainbow, and from “The eagle and me” from Bloomer Girl. (The first song is sung by a leprechaun who is slowly turning mortal and finds it both terrifying and exciting—he’s just discovered girls—, and the second by a runaway slave tasting Northern freedom.) But they’re by the same lyricist (though not all by the same composer), E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, who was indeed devoted to the sport of Extreme Rhyming.

Thanks John....I absolutely should have been clearer. I was using some of Harburg's other musicals as support for the fact that he just crammed in words that "felt" right, whether the word was appropriate (or even real )