Man Of La Mancha (From Man Of La Mancha)

CERVANTES
 I shall impersonate a man.
 His name... Alonso Quijana... a country squire
 no longer young.
 Being retired, he has much time for books. He studies
 them from morn to night and often through the night again.
 And all he reads oppresses him...
 Fills him with indignation at man's murderous ways toward man.
 He ponders the problem
 Of how to make better a world
 Where evil brings profit and virtue none at all.
 He lays down the melancholy burden of sanity
 And conceives the strangest project ever imagined...
 To become a knight-errant
 And sally forth into the world in search of adventures
 To right all wrongs
 To mount a crusade
 To raise up the weak and those in need.
 No longer will he be plain Alonso Quijana...
 but a dauntless knight known as -
 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 banners 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
 Will carry me onward
 Oh whithersoever they blow.
 Whithersoever 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 serpents of sin!
 All your dastardly doings are past
 For a holy endeavor is now to begin
 And virtue shall triumph at last!
 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!
 Whithersoever they blow
 Onward to glory I go!