The Bride in Oz

If I Only Had a Heart

After a long walk, Sophia and Scarecrow walked into a forest of rainbow trees. Suddenly, they heard someone moaning.

"Do you hear that?" Scarecrow asked.

"I think it's coming from over there," Sophia said.

Sophia and Scarecrow followed the sound of the moaning and found a tin man—who also had the same face as Hugo.

"It's a tin woodsman," Sophia said. The tin man tried to talk to Sophia and Scarecrow.

"Did you say something?" Sophia asked.

Tin Man tried to answer her.

"He said windup key," Sophia said.

"What windup key?" Scarecrow asked.

Sophia looked behind Tin Man and found a windup key stuck to his back; now she knew why he was saying "windup key".

"Back here," Sophia said. "He just needs a windup." She started winding the key as much as she could, and Tin Man started moving.

"1001 thanks," Tin Man said.

"No problem," Sophia said with a smile. "I'm Sophia Parker, and this is Scarecrow."

"Nice to meet you," said Tin Man. "So what are you up to?"

"We were just on our way to see the Wizard of Oz," Sophia explained. "I need to ask him to send me home because I'm getting married tomorrow, and Scarecrow is going to ask him for a brain."

Tin Man thought it would be nice to meet the Wizard. "How delightful," he smiled. "You, Sophia, must be very lucky to be with a man who loves you very much. I wish I could love someone—but I don't have a heart." He started to sing

When a man's an empty kettle,

He should be on his mettle

And yet I'm torn apart

Just because I'm presuming

That I could be kinda human

If I only had a heart

I'd be tender, I'd be gentle

And awful sentimental

Regarding love and art

I'd be friends with the sparrows

And the boy who shoots the arrows

If I only had a heart

Picture me a balcony

Above a voice sings low

SOPHIA: Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

TIN MAN: I hear a beat

How sweet

Just to register emotion

Jealousy, devotion

And really feel the part

I would stay young and chipper

And I'd lock it with a zipper

If I only had a heart

Sophia and Scarecrow felt bad for Tin Man, and they both had an idea.

"You know, we were just wondering why you wouldn't come with us and ask the Wizard for a heart," Sophia told Tin Man.

"Do you really believe he'd give me a heart?" Tin Man asked.

"He must—and he really needs to give me a brain, so I can scare away the crows," Scarecrow declared.

"And if I don't get home to Nebraska for tomorrow's wedding, my fiancé, Hugo, will think I'm standing him up," Sophia fretted.

Scarecrow and Tin Man knew this was important to Sophia.

"Well, then if the Wizard will give me a heart, then I'll go too," Tin Man smiled.

"To Oz?" Sophia asked.

"To Oz," Tin Man and Scarecrow smiled.

Sophia took Scarecrow and Tin Man by the arms, and they skipped down the Yellow Brick Road, singing their travel song.

We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz

We hear he is a whiz of a whiz if ever a whiz there was

If ever oh ever a whiz there was,

The Wizard of Oz is one because, because, because, because, because, because, because of the wonderful things he does

We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!

Meanwhile, little did Sophia know that the Wicked Witch of the West was spying on her with her crystal ball. She was jealous that Sophia had the lavender slippers.

"Someone always helps that girl, but I'm still great enough to conquer her," the Wicked Witch muttered. "When I gain those lavender slippers, my power will be the greatest in all of Oz!"