The WIz: Scene 5: Junk Yard- Meet Tinman

Scarecrow: Well? What is it?

(Closed lip while mumbling) Oil! Oil! I need oil…oil…oil

Dorthy: He needs oil!

(mumbling) Oh, please miss… there is some in that little can…

Scarecrow: No, Dorthy, wait!

Hi!

Dorthy: Wait a minute. How did you ever get that way?

Well, I wasn’t always made out of tin, you know.

Dorthy: No?

No! I used to be a real flesh and blood woodchopper, til one day a wicked old witch put a spell on my axe.

Dorthy: A spell!

Yeah! And she really did a number on me. Let me tell you. One day when i was choppin down a tree… that axe was possessed and slipped and cut off my left leg.

Scarecrow: MMMM!! Ain’t that something? Dorthy can we go?

(interrupting him) Yeah. So I went to this here Tinsmith I knew, and I said “Hey, man… do you think you could fix me up with a tin leg? Well, he did. And the next day I’m back choppin, doing my thing, and dang it, if that old ace didn’t slip… and cut off my right leg! So i go back to the tinsmith and get me another leg.

Scarecrow: Now at no time did it dawn on you to get yourself a new axe? (pause) Dorthy let’s go.

Well, it began to rain a lot and before I knew what was happening, bit by bit… I was all tin. And that’s the way it all come about.

Dorthy: You poor man.

Well, you can’t have everything.

ScarecrowL: Ain’t that the truth!

God’s honest truth!

Scarecrow: Cross your heart!

No… I can’t do that.

Scarecrow: I knew it. You was jiving us all along. C’mon, Dorthy.

No, no! Wait, wait! I can’t cross my heart, cause i don’t have no heart.

Dorthy: You don’t have a heart?

Well, it didn’t come with the suit. You know, nowadays… it isn’t enough just being good looking.

Dorthy: (holds a momentary conference with scarecrow) Then come with us to the Emerald City… (the YELLOW BRICK ROAD reforms/enter)… and see the Wiz. They say he can do most anything for anybody.

Yeah? Well, just show me the way.