The Impossible Dream

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM  (The Quest)
M: Mitch Leigh
W: Joe Darion
From: “Man Of La Mancha”
Key: Bb

-1  -2       -1 -1* -2 -1* -1   -2
To dream ... the im-pos-si-ble dream ...
-2   3       -1* -2  3  -2 -1*  3
To fight ... the un-beat-a-ble foe ...
3   -3       -1 -1*  -2  3 -3  -3* -1* 
To bear ... with un-bear-a-ble sor-row ...
-2  3         1  -1   -1*   -2   3  -3
To run ... where the brave dare not go ...
-1  -2       -1 -1*  -2  -1* -1  -2
To right ... the un-right-a-ble wrong ...
-2  3        -1* -2     3    -2 -1* 3
To love ... pure and chaste from a-far ...
3  -3       -1   -1*  -2   3  -3  -3*-1*
To try ... when your arms are too wea-ry ...
-2   3       -1* -2   3  -3 -3*  4
To reach ... the un-reach-a-ble star ... 

-3*  4 -3*  -5   -3* -3*  4   -3*  -5
This is my quest, to fol-low that star ... 
-3* 4  -3* -3   -5   -3  -3*  4  -3* -3   4 
No mat-ter how hope-less, no mat-ter how far ... 
3   -3*  -3   3   -3* 
To fight for the right, 
3    -3   -3*  -3  3   -3*
With-out ques-tion or pause ... 
-3* 4  -5   4 -3*  -5   4 -3*  -5
To be will-ing to march in-to Hell, 
-3* 4  -5 -5* -5   5
for a Heav-en-ly cause ... 

5  -5  -5* -5   5 -5* -5 5  -5*
And I know if I'll on-ly be true, 
-5 -5*  -5  4  -3*   -3
to this glo-ri-ous quest, 
-3  -3*   4   -3*  -3   4    -3* -3   4
That my heart will lie peace-ful and calm, 
-3*   4  -3*  -3  3  -2*
when I'm laid to my rest ... 
-1  -1*   -2   -1 -1* -2  -1* -1   -2
And the world will be bet-ter for this: 
-1*  -2   3     -1*   -2   3  -2    -1*   3
That one man, scorned and cov-ered with scars, 
-2      -3     -1  -1*  -2    3   -3  -3* -1*
Still strove, with his last ounce of cour-age, 
-3*  -5      -3*  4  -5   4 -3* -3*(-7*)
To reach ... the un-reach-a-ble star ...

(-7*) makes a nice ending