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[Glinda, to Dorothy]
Young girl, there's no need to feel down.
I said, young girl, crashed your house in
the ground.
I said, young girl, 'cause you're in a new town
There's no need to be unhappy.
Young girl, there's
a place you can go.
I said, young girl, there's a guy you should know.
You can stay there, and I'm sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time.
It's fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
It's fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
They have everything that you need for your curls,
You can hang out with all the girls ...
It's fun
to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
It's fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
You can get yourself clean, you can have
a good meal,
You can do whatever you feel ...
Young girl, are you listening to me?
I said, young girl, what
do you want to be?
I said, young girl, you can make real your dreams.
But you've got to know this one thing!
No girl
does it all by herself.
I said, young girl, (try not to step on the elf),
And just go there, to the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
(You can ask there for a man who's witty).
It's fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
It's fun to stay at the
Em-erald-Ci-ty.
They have everything that you need for your curls,
You can hang out with all the girls ...
It's fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
It's fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
You can get yourself clean,
you can have a good meal,
You can do whatever you feel ...
Young girl, (just take care of your shoes.)
I said, I was down and out with the blues.
I felt no one cared if I were alive.
I felt the whole world was
so jive ...
That's when someone came up to me,
And said, young girl, take a walk up the street.
It's a place
there called the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
They can start you back on your way.
It's fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
It's fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty.
They have everything that you need for your curls,
You can hang out
with all the girls ...
Em-erald-Ci-ty
It's fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty
Young girl, young girl
there's no need to feel down
Young girl, young girl crashed your house in the ground
Em-erald-Ci-ty
It's
fun to stay at the Em-erald-Ci-ty
Young girl, young girl are you listening to me?
Young girl, young girl what
do you wanna be?
Em-erald-Ci-ty
you'll find it at the Em-erald-Ci-ty
no girl, young girl does it all by
herself
young girl, young girl (try not to step on the elf)
Em-erald-Ci-ty
then just go to the Em-erald-Ci-ty
young
girl, young girl (just take care of your shoes)
young girl, young girl I said, I was down and out
with the blues.
Em-erald-Ci-ty
[The Emerald City is the fictional capital city of the Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described
in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Baum may have been partly inspired in his creation of the Emerald City by the White City of the
1893 World Columbian Exposition, which he visited frequently, having moved to Chicago in anticipation of the event. W. W.
Denslow, the illustrator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was also familiar with the White City, as he had been hired to sketch
and document the exposition for the Chicago Herald; Denslow's illustrations of the Emerald City incorporate elements that
may have been inspired by the White City.
Scholars who interpret The Wizard of Oz as a political allegory see the Emerald City as a metaphor for Washington,
D.C. and unsecured "greenback" paper money. In this reading of the book, the city's illusory splendor and value is compared
with the value of paper money, which also has value only because of a shared illusion or convention. It is highly likely that
the Hotel del Coronado influenced its description in later books, as well as in the artwork by John R. Neill.
The Emerald City of Oz is the title of the sixth book in the Oz series. In it, the city is described as
having exactly 9654 buildings and 57,318 citizens.]
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