No One Mourns the Wicked By Stephen Schwartz (The CITIZENS of Ruatha gather to rejoice in the "death" of Catalina.) CITIZENS Good news! She's dead! The Bitch of the West is dead! The wickedest bitch there ever was The enemy of all of us here we saw Is Dead! Good news! Good news! SOMEONE IN THE CROWD: (spoken) Look! It's Charlotte! (CHARLOTTE enters.) CHARLOTTE (spoken) Fellow Citizens: (sung) Let us be glad Let us be grateful Let us rejoicify that goodness could subdue The wicked workings of you-know-who Isn't it nice to know That good will conquer evil? The truth we all believe'll by and by Outlive a lie For you and - (CATALINA appears downstage, out of sight of the crowd.) CATALINA No one mourns the Wicked No one cries "They won't return!" No one lays a lily on their grave The good man scorns the Wicked! Through their lives, our children learn What we miss, when we misbehave: And goodness knows The wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The wicked die alone It just shows when you're wicked You're left only On your own Yes, goodness knows The wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The wicked cry alone Nothing grows for the wicked They reap only What they've sown No one mourns the wicked! Now at last, she's dead and gone! Now at last, there's joy throughout the land And goodness knows We know what goodness is Goodness knows The wicked die alone CHARLOTTE She died alone: ALL Woe to those Who spurn what goodness They are shown No one mourns the Wicked No one mourns the Wicked! No one mourns the Wicked! Wicked! Wicked! |