The Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory

[bnewman]

This song is part six of the song cycle Melissa Mielfée and the Omphalonian Orchid, a Harry Potter x Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fanfic.
 

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Skullcrusher Mountain" by Jonathan Coulton

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Welcome to the Willy Wonka chocolate factory

I'm the president and CEO

My name is Charles Bucket

I see you've met my assistant, Orchid

You've seen creatures like her before...

They're a race called Oompa Loompa

But I thought that only me and Willy Wonka knew that they exist

 

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Oh, and I won't lie to you

In fact I might confide in you

The Oompa Loompa run this factory

I'm just a face the world can see

 

And though we make lots of sweets in here

It's not the sweets that brought you here

You came to meet the Oompa Loompa

They have a secret that it's time for you to see

 

Orchid says it's time to give you a tour of the greenhouse

Where the Oompa Loompa grow herbs and spices

From their native country

Willy Wonka called it Loompaland

But I don't think that's really its name

These ingredients give our chocolate

All the strange and wondrous properties that led you here today

 

Oh, but there's one flower here

That has the greatest power here

Wonka called it Loompa-nilla

Its true name's not been revealed to me

 

You've seen this plant before, haven't you?

I don't know how that's possible

I thought that only Oompa Loompa

Knew the secret way to make these flowers bloom

 

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I remember when Professor Sprout

Showed me her pride and joy

The only orchid of its kind in England

Or so she believed

 

And while the sight of tens of thousands of them

Is a bit... alarming

I don't know what it means just yet

But I'm prepared to learn

 

I don't think Wonka knew what the Oompa Loompa were after

He certainly was a great chocolatier

I think he had a bit of magic

I think he put it in his chocolate

The Oompa Loompa added their own

You kids have magic — there's some connection

Maybe we should sit and have a cup of cocoa and talk about history

 

Oh, there's a world of wizardry

That's almost entirely new to me

But not to the Oompa Loompa

They're not surprised by you at all

 

But you're surprised by them...

Have you seen their long-lost kin?

 

Charles, it's time to tell our story

And both you and they will see how deep this gets