Dona Dona
Sholom Secunda, Jewish· Other Traditional Songs (Various Origins) · p.410
(English Translation by Arthur Kevess and Teddi Schwartz, 1941)
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On a wagon bound for market,
"Stop com-plaining," said the farmer,
Calves are easily bound and slaughtered,
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There's a calf with a mournful eye.
"Who told you a calf to be?
Never knowing the reason why.
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High a - bove him there's a swallow,
Why don't you have wings to fly away,
But who - ever treasures freedom,
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Winging swiftly through the sky.
Like the swallow so proud and free?"
Like the swallow must learn to fly.
Chorus:
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How the winds are laughing, They laugh with all their might
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Laugh and laugh the whole day through, And half the summer's night.
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Dona dona dona dona, Dona dona dona doan
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Dona dona dona dona Dona dona dona doan