Don Quixote Chords by Gordon Lightfoot

[Start]

[Verse]
B                                        
■ Through the woodland through the valley
B                             
Comes a horseman wild and free
B                               
Tilting at the windmills passing
    B                              
Who can the brave young horseman be
   B                       
He is wild but he is mellow
   B                       
He is strong but he is weak
   B                        
He is cruel but he is gentle
   B                     
He is wise but he is meek
E                         
Reaching for his saddlebag
                         B            
He takes a battered book into his hand
Gb       B              Gb  
Standing like a prophet bold
   E                              B    
He shouts across the ocean to the shore
                     Gb   E
Till he can shout no more ■
B                                 
I have come o'er moor and mountain
B                          
Like the hawk upon the wing
  B                        
I was once a shining knight
        B                     
Who was the guardian of a king
  B                                 
I have searched the whole world over
B                           
Looking for a place to sleep
  B                           
I have seen the strong survive
                                    E
And I have seen the lean grown weak ■
B                              
■ See the children of the earth
         B                     
Who wake to find the table bare
    B                        
See the gentry in the country
B                         
Riding off to take the air


[Chorus]
Gb                        
Reaching for his saddlebag
   E                            B    
He takes a rusty sword into his handz
     Gb                         
Then striking up a knightly pose
   E                              B    
He shouts across the ocean to the shore
                     Gb  
Till he can shout no more


[Verse]
B                          
See the jailor with his key
    B                          
Who locks away all trace of sin
    B                       
See the judge upon the bench
          B                      
Who tries the case as best he can
                 E          
See the wise and wicked ones
    B                           
Who feed upon life's sacred fire
    B                       
See the soldier with his gun
                               E B
Who must be dead to be admired ■ ■
    B                          
See the man who tips the needle
    B                         
See the man who buys and sells
    B                          
See the man who puts the collar
   B                         
On the ones who dare not tell
    B                         
See the drunkard in the tavern
B                              
Stemming gold to make ends meet
    B                        
See the youth in ghetto black
          B                      
Condemned to life upon the street


[Chorus]
Gb                        
Reaching for his saddlebag
   E                                B   
He takes a tarnished cross into his hand
     Gb                          
Then standing like a preacher now
   E                              B    
He shouts across the ocean to the shore
          Gb                     
Then in a blaze of tangled hooves
   E                            B    
He gallops off across the dusty plain
                  Gb   
In vain to search again
                  E   
Where no one will hear
B                                      
Through the woodland through the valley
                 B            
Comes a horseman wild and free
               B                
Tilting at the windmills passing
                        B          
Who can the brave young horseman be
               E     B     
He is wild but he is mellow
                 B         
He is strong but he is weak
                B           
He is cruel but he is gentle
               B         
He is wise but he is meek


[Outro]
E B E B
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