Donna Donna (1965)     (video)

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1. On a wagon bound for market there's a calf with a mournful eye,

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High above him there's a swallow winging swiftly through the sky.

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How the winds are laughing, they laugh with all their might,

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Love and laugh the whole day through and half the summers night.

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2. Stop complaining" said the farmer, "Who told you a calf to be ?

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Why can’t you have wings to fly with,

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like the swallow, so proud and free?"

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How the winds are laughing, they laugh with all their might

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love and laugh the whole day through and half the summers night.

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Donna Donna Donna Donna, Donna Donna Donna Don,

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3. Calves are easily bound and slaughtered,

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never knowing the reason why,

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why can’t you have wings to fly with

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like the swallow has learned to fly.

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How the winds are laughing, they laugh with all their might,

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Love and laugh the whole day through and half the summers night.

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Donna Donna Donna Donna, Donna Donna Donna Don,

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(Donovan)