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Donna, Donna

Please note: This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.

a       E        a            E         a           d              a           E

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

a      E               a           E           a           d       a         E    a

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

    G                        C      a            d             G          C

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

    d             G            C             a          E              E7          a

   laugh and laugh the whole day through, and half a summers night.

    E                               a       d          G                 C

   Donna, donna, donna, donna, donna, donna, donna, don,

    E                               a      E7                             a

   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.....

Calves are easily bound and sloughtered, never knowing the reason why,

But whoever treasures freedom like the swallow has learned to fly.

   How the winds are langhing.....

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