Aldonza-Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio/Brian Stokes Mitchell

[ti:Aldonza] [ar:Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio/Brian Stokes Mitchell] [al:Man of La Mancha (New Broadway Cast Recording (2002))] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Aldonza - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio/Brian Stokes Mitchell [00:08.30]My lady [00:09.17]I am not your lady [00:11.14] [00:12.40]I am not any kind of a lady [00:14.80] [00:16.47]I was spawned in a ditch [00:18.91]By a mother who left me there [00:21.92] [00:22.48]Naked and cold and too hungry to cry [00:27.12]I never blamed her [00:29.43]I'm sure she left hoping [00:31.96]That I'd have the good sense to die [00:35.34] [00:36.85]Then of course there's my father [00:39.48]I'm told that young ladies [00:42.04]Can point to their fathers [00:44.47]With maidenly pride [00:46.75] [00:47.28]Mine was some regiment [00:49.85]Here for an hour [00:51.93] [00:52.72]I can't even tell you which side [00:55.42] [00:57.00]So of course I became [00:59.62]As befitted my delicate birth [01:03.99] [01:04.66]The most casual bride [01:07.20]Of the murdering scum of the earth [01:11.09]And still thou art my lady [01:12.77]And still he torments me [01:14.47]How should I be a lady [01:16.30] [01:16.87]For a lady has modest and maidenly airs [01:21.91]And a virtue I somehow suspect that I lack [01:26.41] [01:26.96]It's hard to remember these maidenly airs [01:31.65]In a stable laid flat on your back [01:34.75] [01:36.52]Won't you look at me look at me [01:39.47]God won't you look at me [01:41.79]Look at the kitchen slat reeking of sweat [01:45.97] [01:46.71]Born on a dung heap to die on a dung heap [01:51.61]A strumpet men use and forget [01:54.83] [01:56.42]If you feel that you see me [01:59.08]Not quite at my virginal best [02:03.08] [02:03.91]Cross my palm with a coin [02:06.34]And I'll willingly show you the rest [02:10.05]Never deny thou art dulcinea [02:12.24]Take the clouds from your eyes [02:13.94]And see me as I really am [02:15.80]You have shown me the sky [02:18.19]But what good is the sky [02:20.79]To a creature who'll never [02:23.46]Do better than crawl [02:25.80]Of all the cruel bastards [02:28.36]Who've badgered and battered me [02:31.10]You are the cruelest of all [02:33.79] [02:35.29]Can't you see what your gentle [02:37.86]Insanities do to me [02:40.76]Rob me of anger and give me despair blows and abuse [02:47.36]I can take and give back again [02:49.97] [02:50.51]Tenderness I cannot bear [02:53.13] [02:54.61]So please torture me now [02:57.17]With your sweet dulcineas no more [03:02.07]I know what I'm nothing [03:04.49]I'm only aldonza [03:06.67] [03:08.15]Now and forever thou art my lady dulcinea