meanwhile, the still-black senator rawkins is hiding in the woods. he meets og and explains what happened to him. og decides what the senator needs is a new inside rather than a new outside. he uses his own magic to make the senator a nicer person ("fiddle faddle"). in his new persona, rawkins falls in with a group of black gospel singers looking for a fourth man ("the begat"); by chance, they are all going to sing at woody and sharon's wedding. the wedding is interrupted by buzz and the sheriff, who have come to arrest her for witchcraft. the senator tries to defend woody and sharon, but as a black man he lacks any authority over the sheriff. finian steps in, promising sharon can change the senator back. he dismisses everyone, intending to use the crock to undo her wish, but finds the crock gone.