Colm Wilkinson - Man of La Mancha(I, Don Quixote)

From Stage Heroes Lyrics 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