The Impossible Dream

M: Mitch Leigh
W: Joe Darion
From: Man Of La Mancha
Key: Bb

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To dream … the im-pos-si-ble dream …
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To fight … the un-beat-a-ble foe …
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To bear … with un-bear-a-ble sor-row …
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To run … where the brave dare not go …
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To right … the un-right-a-ble wrong …
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To love … pure and chaste from a-far …
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To try … when your arms are too wea-ry …
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To reach … the un-reach-a-ble star …

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This is my quest, to fol-low that star …
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No mat-ter how hope-less, no mat-ter how far …
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To fight for the right,
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With-out ques-tion or pause …
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To be will-ing to march in-to Hell,
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for a Heav-en-ly cause …

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And I know if I’ll on-ly be true,
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to this glo-ri-ous quest,
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That my heart will lie peace-ful and calm,
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when I’m laid to my rest …
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And the world will be bet-ter for this:
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That one man, scorned and cov-ered with scars,
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Still strove, with his last ounce of cour-age,
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To reach … the un-reach-a-ble star …

(-7*) makes a nice ending