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Artist/Band:
Gordon Lightfoot
Lyrics for Song: Don Quixote
Lyrics for Album: Don Quixote [1972]
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 saddle bag
He takes a battered book into his hand
Standing like a prophet fool
He shouts across the ocean to the shore
Til he can shout no more
I have come among the mountain
Like the hawk upon a wing
I was once the 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
I have seen the lean grow 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 saddle bag
He takes a rusty sword into his hand
Then striking up a knightly pose
He shouts across the ocean to the shore
Til he can shout no more
See the jailer 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
Standing fool can't make ends meet
See the youth in ghetto black
Condemned to life upon the street
Reaching for his saddle bag
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 haze 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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