Man of La Mancha (I Am I, Don Quixote)
From Man of La Mancha
Lyrics by Joe Darion
In this song -- whose words are spoken to music until it breaks into song after the first stanza -- Cervantes introduces the prisoners to the character of Don Quixote and a**umes the role before their eyes. His a**ociate becomes Sancho Panza.
CERVANTES
I shall impersonate ... a man.
Come, enter into my imagination, and see him:
Boney, hollow faced, eyes that burn with the fire of inner vision.
He conceives the strangest project ever imagined ...
To become a knight errant
And sally forth into the world, righting all wrongs!
His name: Don Quixote de La Mancha!
DON QUIXOTE
Hear me now, oh thou bleak and unbearable world
Thou art base and debauched as can be!
And a knight with his valors all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee!
I am I, Don Quixote,
The Lord of La Mancha,
My destiny calls, and I go!
And the wild winds of fortune
Shall carry me onward ... To wither so ever they blow ...
Wither so ever they blow ...
Onward to glory I go!
SANCHO PANZA
I'm Sancho, yes, I'm Sancho
I'll follow my master till the end...
I'll tell all the world, proudly,
I'm his squire ... I'm his friend.
DON QUIXOTE
Hear me heathens, and wizards, and servants of sin:
All your dastardly doings are past!
For a holy endeavor is now to begin
And virtue shall triumph at last!
(Don Quixote and Sancho Panza mount their horses and set out along a road)
DON QUIXOTE
I am I, Don Quixote,
The Lord of la Mancha,
My destiny calls and I go,
And the wild winds of fortune
Will carry me onward,
Oh whithersoever they blow!
SANCHO
I'm Sancho! Yes, I'm Sancho!
I'll follow my master till the end.
I'll tell all the world proudly
I'm his squire! I'm his friend!
DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO
Whithersoever they blow,
Onward to glory I {we} go!
They arrive at an Inn full of rough men - Muleteers - and rough women
From Man of La Mancha
Lyrics by Joe Darion
In this song -- whose words are spoken to music until it breaks into song after the first stanza -- Cervantes introduces the prisoners to the character of Don Quixote and a**umes the role before their eyes. His a**ociate becomes Sancho Panza.
CERVANTES
I shall impersonate ... a man.
Come, enter into my imagination, and see him:
Boney, hollow faced, eyes that burn with the fire of inner vision.
He conceives the strangest project ever imagined ...
To become a knight errant
And sally forth into the world, righting all wrongs!
His name: Don Quixote de La Mancha!
DON QUIXOTE
Hear me now, oh thou bleak and unbearable world
Thou art base and debauched as can be!
And a knight with his valors all bravely unfurled
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee!
I am I, Don Quixote,
The Lord of La Mancha,
My destiny calls, and I go!
And the wild winds of fortune
Shall carry me onward ... To wither so ever they blow ...
Wither so ever they blow ...
Onward to glory I go!
SANCHO PANZA
I'm Sancho, yes, I'm Sancho
I'll follow my master till the end...
I'll tell all the world, proudly,
I'm his squire ... I'm his friend.
DON QUIXOTE
Hear me heathens, and wizards, and servants of sin:
All your dastardly doings are past!
For a holy endeavor is now to begin
And virtue shall triumph at last!
(Don Quixote and Sancho Panza mount their horses and set out along a road)
DON QUIXOTE
I am I, Don Quixote,
The Lord of la Mancha,
My destiny calls and I go,
And the wild winds of fortune
Will carry me onward,
Oh whithersoever they blow!
SANCHO
I'm Sancho! Yes, I'm Sancho!
I'll follow my master till the end.
I'll tell all the world proudly
I'm his squire! I'm his friend!
DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO
Whithersoever they blow,
Onward to glory I {we} go!
They arrive at an Inn full of rough men - Muleteers - and rough women