Songtexte Man of La Mancha (2021 Digimix Remaster) - Avery Saltzman , Ron Raines

Then may I set the stage. I shall impersonate a man. Come, enter
Into my imagination and see him. His name: Alonso Quixana, a country
Squire, no longer young, bony, hollow-faced, eyes that burn with
The fire of inner vision. Being retired, he has much time for books
He studies them from morn to night, and often through the night as
Well. And all he reads oppresses him, fills him with indignation
At man's murderous ways toward man. He broods, and broods, and
Broods. And finally, from so much brooding, his brains dry up. 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 to right all wrongs. No longer shall he be plain
Alonso Quixana, but a dauntless knight
Known as Don Quixote de La Mancha!
(Sung)
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 whither so ever they blow
Whither so ever they blow
Onward to glory I go

I'm Sancho
Yes, I'm Sancho
I'll follow my master 'til the end
I'll tell all the world proudly
I'm his squire, I'm his friend

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

I am I, Don Quixote
I'm Sancho
The lord of La Mancha
Yes, I'm Sancho
My destiny calls and I go
I'll follow my master 'til the end
And the wild winds of fortune
I'll tell all the world proudly
Will carry me onward
I'm his squire, I'm his friend
Oh whither so ever they blow
Whither so ever they blow
Onward to glory I go