Dona Dona Lyrics

Chorus:
       {Dona, dona, dona, dona,
       Dona, dona, dona, do,
       Dona, dona, dona, dona,
       Dona, dona, dona, do} On a wagon bound for market
There's a calf with a mournful eye.
High above him there's a swallow
Winging swiftly through the sky.        How the winds are laughing
       They laugh with all their mightJoan Baez - Dona Dona - http://motolyrics.com/joan-baez/dona-dona-lyrics.html
       Laugh and laugh the whole day through
       And half the summer's night. {Chorus} "Stop complaining," said the farmer,
"Who told you a calf to be?
Why don't you have wings to fly with
Like the swallow so proud and free?"        How the winds are laughing ... {Chorus} Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why.
But whoever treasures freedom,
Like the swallow has learned to fly.        How the winds are laughing ... {Chorus} Submitter's comments:  Yiddish song, 1940