Dona Dona - Patty Duke

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 might

Laugh and laugh the whole day through

And half the summer’s night

Dona dona dona dona

Dona dona dona down

Dona dona dona dona

Dona dona dona down

«Stop complaining» said the farmer

«Who told you a calf to be Why don’t you have wings to fly away

Like the swallow so proud and free?»

How the winds are laughing

They laugh with all their might

Laugh and laugh the whole day through

And half the summer’s night

Dona dona dona dona

Dona dona dona down

Dona dona dona dona

Dona dona dona down

Calves are easily bound and slaughtered

Never knowing the reason why

But whoever treasures freedom

Like the swallow has learnt to fly

How the winds are laughing

They laugh with all their might

Laugh and laugh the whole day through

And half the summer’s night

Dona dona dona dona

Dona dona dona down

Dona dona dona dona

Dona dona dona down