Donna Donna

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Author: Shalom Secunda

Source

Digital Tradition, donadona

History

English translation by Arthur Kevess and Teddi Schwartz

Original Yiddish words by Aaron Zeitlin and Shalom Secunda;

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X: 1
T:Donna Donna
S:Digital Tradition, donadona
H:Original Yiddish words by Aaron Zeitlin and Shalom Secunda;
H:English translation by Arthur Kevess and Teddi Schwartz
N:Author: Shalom Secunda
B:From Joan Baez Songbook
D:Sung by Joan Baez and Chad Mitchell
Z:dt:donadona
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
W:On a wagon bound for market
W:There's a calf with a mournful eye.
W:High above him there's a swallow
W:Winging swiftly through the sky.
W:
W:How the winds are laughing
W:They laugh with all their might
W:Laugh and laugh the whole day through
W:And half the summer's night.
W:
W:Dona dona dona dona
W:Dona dona dona down
W:Dona dona dona dona
W:Dona dona dona down
W:
W:"Stop complaining," said the farmer,
W:"Who told you a calf to be"
W:Why don't you have wings to fly away
W:Like the swallow so proud and free"
W:
W:Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
W:Never knowing the reason why.
W:But whoever treasures freedom,
W:Like the swallow must learn to fly
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