Colm Wilkinson - Man Of La Mancha Lyrics

Lyrics Man Of La Mancha - Colm Wilkinson



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!



Writer(s): Jacques Brel, Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh


Colm Wilkinson - The Essential
Album The Essential
date of release
23-12-2016

1 Bring Him Home (from "Les Misearables")
2 Some Enchanted Evening
3 A Song for You
4 The Wind Beneath My Wings
5 Man Of La Mancha
6 Funny How Time Slips Away
7 Summertime (from "Porky & Best")
8 We Are One
9 Old Man River
10 If I Knew Then
11 It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porky & Best")
12 This Nearly Was Mine (From South Pacific)
13 Runaway
14 The Phantom Of The Opera
15 Empty Chairs At Empty Tables (From Les miserables)
16 Suzanne
17 Country Roads
18 The Impossible Dream (From "Man of La Mancha")
19 Red Sails In the Sunset
20 Maria (From West Side Story)
21 I Cannot Stay
22 House Of The Rising Son
23 M.L.K./ I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
24 Last to Know
25 Imagine/Peace Will Come
26 Whisky In The Jar
27 This Is the Moment (From "Jekyll & Hyde")
28 Music Of The Night (From The Phantom Of The Opera)
29 Home Thoughts from Abroad
30 Somewhere (From West Side Story)
31 If I Ever Leave You (From "Camelot")
32 Father & Son
33 Hallelujah
34 Danny Boy
35 Tennessee Waltz
36 How to Handle a Women (From "Camelot")
37 Pity The Child (From Chess)
38 Anthem (From Chess)
39 You Don't Know Me




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