DONA DONA
m. Sholom Secunda; w. Sheldon Secunda
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Intro:
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On a wagon bound for market
there`s a calf with a mournful eye.
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High a-bove him there`s a swallow,
winging swiftly through the
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CHORUS:
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How the winds are laughing, they laugh with all their might.
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Laugh and laugh the whole day through, and half the summer`s night.
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Dona, Dona, Dona, Dona; Dona, Dona, Dona, Don.
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Dona, Dona, Dona, Dona; Dona, Dona, Dona, Don
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"Stop com-plaining!“ said the farmer,
who told you a calf to be ?
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Why don`t you have wings to fly with,
like the swallow so proud and free?“
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Calves are easily bound and slaughtered,
never knowing the reason why.
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But who-ever treasures freedom,
like the swallow has learned to
fly.
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