Irving Jacobson & Richard Kiley
Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote)
[CERVANTES]
I shall impersonate a man! Come, enter into my imagination and see him. Bony, 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 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 shall carry me onward
Oh whithersoever they blow
Whithersoever they blow
Onward to glory I go!
[SANCHO]
I'm Sancho! Yes, I'm Sancho!
I follow my master 'til 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 & SANCHO]
I am I, Don Quixote
The Lord of La Mancha
I'm Sancho! Yes, I'm Sancho!
My destiny calls and I go
I follow my master 'til the end
And the wild winds of fortune shall carry me onward
I'll tell all the world proudly
Oh whithersoever they blow!
I'm his squire! I'm his friend!
[DON QUIXOTE & SANCHO]
Whithersoever they blow
Onward to glory I go!