Joan Baez - Donna Donna

 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 the 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


How the winds are laughing

They laugh with all the 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



Calves are easily bound and slaughtered

Never knowing the reason why

But whoever treasures freedom

Like the swallow has learned to fly


How the winds are laughing

They laugh with all the 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