Misc - Dona Dona guitar tab

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{title:Dona, Dona}

{st:original Yiddish: Aaron Zeitlin & Shalom Secunda}

{st:English: Arthur Kevess & Teddi Schwartz}

[Am]On a w[E]agon [Am]bound for m[E]arket,

[Am]There's a [Dm]calf with a [Am]mournful [E]eye.

[Am]High ab[E]ove him [Am]there's a s[E]wallow

[Am]Winging s[Dm]wiftly t[E]hrough the [Am]sky.

{c:Chorus:}

[G]How the winds are l[C]aughing,

[Am]They l[G]augh with all their m[C]ight,

[G]Laugh and laugh the w[C]hole d[E]ay th[Am]rough,

And [E]half the summer's n[Am]ight.

[E]Dona, dona, dona, d[Am]onna;

[G]Dona, dona, dona, [C]don.

[E]Dona, dona, dona, d[Am]onna;

[E]Dona, dona, dona, [Am]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?"

{c:Chorus.}

Calves are easily bound and slaughtered,

Never knowing the reason why,

But whoever treasures freedom,

Like the swallow has learned to fly.

{c:Chorus.}

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# Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives

# by Steve Putz

# 7 September 1992