Donna Donna

Donovan

capo V.
   
1. On a wagon bound for market
   there's a calf with a mournfull eye
   high above him there's a swallow
   winging swifly through the sky

   How the winds are laughing,
   they laugh with all their might(mind)
   laugh and laugh the whole day through
   and half the summers night

R: Donna Donna Donna Donna

2. Stop complaining, said the farmer,
   who told you a calf to be
   why don't you have wings to fly with
   like a swallow so proud and free ?

3. Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
   never knowing the reason why
   but who ever treasures freedom,
   like the swallow had learned to fly