Donna Donna

Joan Baez * Track #7 On Joan Baez

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Album Joan Baez

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Joan Baez

1960

Donna Donna by Joan Baez

Performed by

Joan Baez

Produced by

Maynard Solomon

Writed by

Teddi Schwartz & Sholom Secunda & Arthur S. Kevess & Aaron Zeitlin

About

This song was written by Sholom Secunda and Aaron Zeitlin and originally in Yiddish, known as “Dana Dana” (1941).
In English translation it was called “Dona Dona,” but the n is doubled in Joan Baez’s popular version first recorded in 1960.

The calf in the song represents the body, the seat of desi...

Donna Donna Lyrics

[Verse 1]
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]
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all 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

[Verse 2]
"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?"

[Chorus]
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all 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

[Verse 3]
Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why
But whoever treasures freedom
Like the swallow has learned to fly

[Outro]
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all 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

Donna Donna Q&A

Who wrote Donna Donna's ?

Donna Donna was written by Teddi Schwartz & Sholom Secunda & Arthur S. Kevess & Aaron Zeitlin.