Lyrics Colm Wilkinson - Man of La Mancha

I will impersonate a man.
His name - Alonso Quixano a concrete gentleman no longer young.
Being retired hi's much time for books.
He studies them from morn 'till night
and often through
the morn and night again. All he reads oppresses him, fills him with indignition
at man's murderous ways
towards man. He comes with the problem -
how to make better a world where evil makes 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 errand
and sally forth to roam the world in search of adventure.
To right all wrong.
To mount a crusade!
To raise up the weak and those in need.
No longer will he be plain Alonzo Quixano
But a dauntless knight
known as Don Quixote de La Mancha!