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Donna Donna


On a waggon 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 might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through,
and half the summer's night

Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna; Donna, Donna, Donna, Don
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna; Donna, Donna, Donna, Don

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

Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
never knowing the reason why
But whoever treasures freedom
like the swallow has learned to fly.


The Chad Mitchell Trio - Mighty Day On Campus
1961