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From The Lucius Terwilliger CD "Folk Paw"
Track 8	Dona Dona	4:45
	Lyrics:	Original Yiddish text by Aaron Zeitlin
	Lyrics:	English Lyric Translation by Arthur Kevess & Teddi Schwartz
	Music:	Shalom Secunda
	Guitar & Vocal:	Ken Langford
	Autoharp:	Michael Stanwood
	Track Started & Completed:	3/26/06 - 10/4/06
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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 their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer’s night

Dona Dona Dona
Dona Don
Dona Dona
Dona Dona 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?”

Chorus

Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reasons why
But whoever treasures freedom
Like the swallow must learn to fly

Chorus

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