The Impossible Dream (The Quest) chords by Christopher Lee

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Verse 1
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G 
Why do you do these things?
What things?
C 
These ridiculous, the things you do.
I hope to add some measure
of grace to the world.
The world's a dung heap,
Bm 
and we are maggots that crawl on it.
C 
My lady knows better in her heart.
What's in my heart
Am 
will get me halfway to hell.
D 
And you, Señor Don Quixote,
you're going to take such a beating.
G 
Whether I win or lose does not matter.
What does?
C 
Only that I follow the quest.
That for your quest?
Bm 
What does that mean, quest?
G 
It is the mission of each true knight.
F 
G 
F 
His duty, nay, his privilege
G 
To dream the impossible dream
C 
To fight the unbeatable foe
Bm 
C 
To bear with unbearable sorrow
Am 
D 
To run where the brave dare not go
G 
To right the unrightable wrong
C 
To love pure and chaste from afar
Bm 
To try, when your arms are too weary
C 
Am 
D 
To reach, the unreachable star
G 
Em 
This is my quest, to follow that star
Bm 
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
C 
Em 
To fight for the right
without question or pause
Eb 
D 
To be willing to march into hell
Eb 
Em 
F 
G 
C 
for a heavenly cause
Bm 
C 
Am 
D 
Am 
D 
G 
This is my quest, to follow that star
Em 
Bm 
No matter how hopeless,
no matter how far
C 
Em 
To fight for the right,
without question or pause
Eb 
D 
To be willing to march into hell
Eb 
Em 
F 
for a heavenly cause
Am 
F 
And I know, if I'll only need to rule
Bm 
To this glorious quest
C 
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That my heart will lie peaceful an  d calm
C 
Cm 
When I'm laid to my rest
C 
D 
G 
An d  the world will be better for this
C 
That one man,
scorned and covered with scars
Bm 
C 
Still strove with his long sense of courage
G 
D 
G 
D 
G 
To reach the un reachable star you