[CHARLIE, spoken]
My Grandpa Joe says Willy Wonka's the greatest chocolatier who ever lived!

[WILLY WONKA, spoken]
So? What happened to him?

[CHARLIE, spoken]
You run a candy shop! Do you really not know any of this?

(sung)
How can a man who sells chocolate
Not know all the history?
I don't understand
How can a man who sells chocolate
Not know of the mystery
I hold in my hand?
Willy Wonka!
Willy Wonka!
Willy Wonka made sweets
Most delectable treats!
Willy Wonka!
Was the best of the best!
If the subject is Wonka
It's true, I'm obsessed!

[WILLY WONKA, spoken]
Well, what does he look like?
[CHARLIE, spoken]
Now? He must be like a thousand years old. He probably has a hump

(sung)
But my Grandpa Joe
Sings of treats beyond words
Desired by old and by young
Like eggs made of chocolate
That turned into birds
Who perched and sang tunes on your tongue

[ENSEMBLE]
Willy Wonka!
Willy Wonka!

[CHARLIE]
Willy Wonka was known
From Brazil to Cologne

[ENSEMBLE]
Willy Wonka!

[CHARLIE]
Lived his life to create
And if I could afford him
I'd be overweight
[WILLY WONKA, spoken]
What happened next?

[CHARLIE, spoken]
He died

[WILLY WONKA, spoken]
What?

[CHARLIE, spoken]
Commercially, he died

[WILLY WONKA, spoken]
That's hardly the same thing

[CHARLIE]
You see, Wonka found out
That to his sad surprise
The workers he cherished
Turned out to be spies!
They copied his recipes
Spoiled his art
They sold all his secrets
And worse, they broke his heart

(spoken)
Willy Wonka turned his back on the world. He shut up shop and locked his factory. They say he hates all humanity
[WILLY WONKA, spoken]
Nobody thinks to knock? Maybe give the guy a call?

[CHARLIE, spoken]
Well, it's a factory with no workers, but somehow he still makes chocolate. How does he do it? Nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever goes out. It's one of the great mysteries of the chocolate making world

[WILLY WONKA, spoken]
Well, who cares how the stuff's made as long as kids buy it?

[CHARLIE, spoken]
Oh no, only old people buy his chocolate now

[WILLY WONKA, spoken]
What?

[CHARLIE, spoken]
Wonka's old-fashioned. He's out of date. He's not even advertised on TV

[WILLY WONKA, spoken]
Huh. Imagine

[CHARLIE]
And so it's been decades
And Wonka's grown old
Like I told you, it's like he was dead
Then I saw this shop
And then lo and behold!
The explosion you heard was my head!

[ENSEMBLE]
Willy Wonka!
Willy Wonka!

[CHARLIE]
Oh, the joy since I've learned
His chocolate's returned!
Now I'm wishing
On my dad's lucky star
To someday be able to buy one bar!