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The Impossible Dream
Words & Music by Joe Darion & Mitch Leigh
From the Broadway production "Man of La Mancha"
Recorded by Jack Jones, 1966 (#35)
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To dream the impossible dream,
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To fight the unbeatable foe,
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To bear with unbearable sorrow,
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To run where the brave dare not go.
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To right the unrightable wrong,
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To love pure and chaste from afar,
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To try when your arms are too weary
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To reach the unreachable star.
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This is my quest, to follow that star,
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No matter how hopeless, no matter how far,
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To Fight for the right, without question or pause,
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To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause;
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And I know, if I'll only be true to this glorious quest,
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That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
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When I'm laid to my rest.
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And the world will be better for this,
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That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
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Still strove with his last ounce of courage
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To reach the un - reach - a - ble star.
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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