Donna donna Songtext / Lyric

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

CHORUS:
All the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh & laugh the whole day through &
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 & free?"

(chorus)

Calves are easily bound & slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why
But whoever treasures freedom
Like the swallow has learned to fly?

(chorus)