I think you made an error. The WWotWest did not have a house land on her. She was melted by water. The WWotEast has a house land on her.
The song lyrics do not mention if the witch is the East or West variety, but since the witch that had a house land on her was the East one, it is fairly clear the East witch is the witch riding around in the tornado.
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If you’re going that route, then why would she have imagined them at all?
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They showed up when the narrative required them.
In other words, the movie-makers didn’t expect us to be scrutinizing this movie to this detail 100 years later. They just had a witch in the tornado, and had ruby slippers when they needed ruby slippers.
Given that the house only fell on one witch, and it was the East witch, yeah. Any other interpretation of that verse is wrong. This really isn’t subject to debate.
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?
The guys who wrote those lyrics were notorious for just kinda making words up to fit the meter or stuffing random words in, regardless of context. So…slitch? not so strange.
In one of their lyrics, someone who’s happy claims to feel that:
In another of their songs, the word “onion” is, inexplicably used to mean “young”
(Apparently this is Stephen Sondeheim’s favorite lyric ever! This probably explains something)
Because the witch’s butt was getting tired sitting on that broomstick and the witch wanted to sit in the slitchy kitchen.
The song “Ding Dong” is rather long and convoluted. It has several different parts, and not all the lyrics site list them all. I found a more or less complete set here.
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.
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 )
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