Don Quixote Lyrics

Don Quixote lyrics

Through the woodland, through the valley

 Comes a horseman wild and free

 Tilting at the windmills passing

 Who can the brave young horseman be

 He is wild but he is mellow

 He is strong but he is weak

 He is cruel but he is gentle

 He is wise but he is meek

 

 Reaching for his saddlebag

 He takes a battered book into his hand

 Standing like a prophet bold

 He shouts across the ocean to the shore

 Till he can shout no more

 

 I have come o'er moor and mountain

 Like the hawk upon the wing

 I was once a shining knight

 Who was the guardian of a king

 I have searched the whole world over

 Looking for a place to sleep

 I have seen the strong survive

 And I have seen the lean grown weak

 

 See the children of the earth

 Who wake to find the table bare

 See the gentry in the country

 Riding off to take the air

 

 Reaching for his saddlebag

 He takes a rusty sword into his hand

 Then striking up a knightly pose

 He shouts across the ocean to the shore

 Till he can shout no more

 

 See the jailor with his key

 Who locks away all trace of sin

 See the judge upon the bench

 Who tries the case as best he can

 See the wise and wicked ones

 Who feed upon life's sacred fire

 See the soldier with his gun

 Who must be dead to be admired

 

 See the man who tips the needle

 See the man who buys and sells

 See the man who puts the collar

 On the ones who dare not tell

 See the drunkard in the tavern

 Stemming gold to make ends meet

 See the youth in ghetto black

 Condemned to life upon the street

 

 Reaching for his saddlebag

 He takes a tarnished cross into his hand

 Then standing like a preacher now

 He shouts across the ocean to the shore

 Then in a blaze of tangled hooves

 He gallops off across the dusty plain

 In vain to search again

 Where no one will hear

 

 Through the woodland, through the valley

 Comes a horseman wild and free

 Tilting at the windmills passing

 Who can the brave young horseman be

 He is wild but he is mellow

 He is strong but he is weak

 He is cruel but he is gentle

 He is wise but he is meek

 

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