- BARBER:
- Oh, I am a little barber and I go my merry way.
With my razor and my basin I can always earn my pay.
Though your skin be smooth as satin, you will need me soon, I know,
for the Lord protects His barbers and he makes the stubble grow.
If I slip while I am shaving you and cut you to the quick,
you can use me as a doctor for I also heal the sick.- DON QUIXOTE: spoken
- Hand it over!
- BARBER: spoken
- But this is nothing but a shaving basin!
- DON QUIXOTE: spoken
- Shaving basin!! Dost not know what this really is?
- sung
Now Golden Helmet of Mambrino,
with so illustrious a past...
too long hast thou been lost to glory,
Th'art reunited now at last.Golden Helmet of Mambrino,
there can be no hat like thee.
thee and I now, 'ere I die, now
will make golden history.- BARBER:
- I can hear the cuckoo singing in the cuckooberry tree.
- SANCHO:
- If he says that that's a helmet, I suggest that you agree.
- BARBER:
- But, he'll find it is not gold and will not make him bold and brave.
- SANCHO:
- Well, at least, he'll find it useful if he ever needs a shave.
- DON QUIXOTE:
- Thou Golden Helmet of Mambrino,
Thy deeds the world will not forget.
now Don Quixote de la Mancha
will bring thee greater glory yet.- ALL:
- Golden Helmet of Mambrino,
there can be no hat like thee,
Thee and I now, 'ere I die, now,
will make golden history.
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