Don Quixote
Gordon Lightfoot

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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S. a.   Somewhere U.S.A.   Song for a Winter's Night   Song For A Winter's Night   Songs The Minstrel Sang   Spanish Moss   Spin, Spin   Station Master   Stay Loose   Steel Rail Blues   Stone Cold Sober   Summer Side of Life   Summertime Dream   Sundown   Sweet Guinevere   Talking In Your Sleep   Tattoo   Thank You for The Promises   That Same Old Obsession   The Auctioneer   The Circle Is Small   The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face   The Gypsy   The House You Live In   The Last Time I Saw Her   The List   The Lost Children   The Mountains and Maryann   The Patriot's Dream   The Pony Man   The Soul Is The Rock   The Watchman's Gone   The Way I Feel   The Way I Feel (In Album The Way I Feel)   The Way I Feel [Acoustic]   The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald   Too Late for Prayin'   Too Many Clues In This Room   Too Much to Lose   Triangle   Uncle Toad Said   Unsettled Ways   Waiting For You   Walls   Welcome To Try   Wherefor and Why   Wherefore & Why   Wherefore And Why   Whisper My Name   Whispers of The North   Why Should I Feel Blue   Wild Strawberries   Without You   Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald   You Are What I Am   You Just Gotta Be   You'll Still Be Needing Me   Your Love's Return

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