Hear me now 
Oh thou bleak and unbearable world, 
Thou art base and debauched as can be; 
And a knight with his banners all bravely unfurled 
Now hurls down his gauntlet to thee! 
I am I, Don Quixote, 
The Lord of La Mancha, þ 
My destiny calls and I go, 
And the wild winds of fortune 
Will carry me onward, 
Oh whithersoever they blow. 
Whithersoever they blow, 
Onward to glory I go! 
Hear me, heathens and wizards 
And serpents of sin! 
All your dastardly doings are past, 
For a holy endeavor is now to begin 
And virtue shall triumph at last! 
I am I, Don Quixote, 
The Lord of La Mancha, þ 
My destiny calls and I go, 
And the wild winds of fortune 
Will carry me onward, 
Oh whithersoever they blow.