I, Don Quixote (Extended Version) Chords

_ [C#] _ _ May I set the stage. _ _ _
I shall impersonate a man, _ _ _ _
Tender into my imagination, and see him.
His name, _ Alonzo Quijada. _
A country squire, no longer [B] young,
[C#] Bony, _ hollow face, _ _ eyes that burn with a fire of inner vision. _
[G#m] _ He [C#] retires.
He has much time for books.
He studies them from dawn to [B] night,
[C#] And often through the night as [B] well.
[C#] _ And all he reads [C#m] _ oppresses him,
Fills him with indignation at man's murderous ways towards man. _ _ _ _
And he _ conceives the _ strangest project ever imagined.
_ _ _ To become a knight-errant,
And sally forth into the world to right all _ wrongs. _
No longer _ shall he be plain, Alonzo Quijada,
_ _ But a dauntless knight,
_ [B] [C#m] Known as _ Don Quixote de la [C#] Mancha. _ _ _
_ _ _ Hear me now, thou bleak [F#] and _ [C#] unbearable wall,
Thou a-dazed and debauched as [D#] can be.
_ [G#] _ _ [C#] And a knight with this manner [F#] so _ [C#] bravely unfurled,
[A] Now holds [E] down his conflict [G#] to thee.
_ [E] _ [C#] I am I, Don Quixote, _ _
_ _ _ [A#m] This _ [Fm] triumph of evil [G#] am I.
_ I [C#] will march to the sound of the trumpets of glory,
For there [E] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
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_ _ I am _ _ _ _ _ such [G#] a [A#m] bluff for you,
[Fm] I'm the [G#] _ _ sea [G#m]
-sand [C#m] of _ _ _
[G#] [C#m] the world, _
Proudly _ I'm [E] his [G#m] warrior, [C#] _ I'm his friend. _ _ _ _ _
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Hear me, [C#m] dearest and wizards [F#m] and _ [C#] serpents of sin,
For your [C#m] _ dastardly doings [D#] are past.
[G#] _ _
[C#] For a holy endeavor [F#m] is now [C#] to begin,
[A] And purge you [E] such a lion [G#] at _ last.
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I am I, Don Quixote,
But I am a lover of [A#m] my _ [Fm] dastardly doings,
[G#] And I go _ [C#] and I will not _ _ turn _ away.
_ I'm [E] his [G#m] warrior, [C#] _ I'm his friend.
_ Where to, _ [C#m]
where I may _ go, _
_ [E] But what [G#] to glory [C#] may _ call. _
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