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Un capretto [Dona, dona]

Herbert Pagani
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On A Wagon Bound To Market
ON A WAGON BOUND AND HELPLESS
[DONNA, DONNA]
ON A WAGON BOUND TO MARKET
On a wagon bound and helpless
Lies a calf, who is doomed to die.
High above him flies a swallow
Soaring gaily through the sky.
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.
The wind laughs in the cornfield
Laughs with all his might
Laughs and laughs the whole day through
And half way through the night.
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,
Dona, dona, dona, do,
Dona, dona, dona, dona,
Dona, dona, dona, do.
Dona, dona, dona, dona,
Dona, dona, dona, do,
Dona, dona, dona, dona,
Dona, dona, dona, do.
Now the calf is softly crying
"Tell me wind, why do you laugh?"
Why can’t I fly like the swallow
Why did I have to be a calf,
"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?"
The wind laughs in the cornfield
Laughs with all his might
Laughs and laughs the whole day through
And half way through the night.
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer's night.
Calves are born and soon are slaughtered
With no hope of being saved.
Only those with wing like swallow
Will not ever be enslaved
Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why.
But whoever treasures freedom,
Like the swallow has learned to fly.


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