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On a wagon bound for market, There's a calf with a mournful eye.
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High above him there's a swallow Winging swiftly through the sky.
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How the winds are laughing, They laugh with all their might,
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Laugh and laugh the whole day through, And half the summer's night.
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Dona, dona, dona, donna; Dona, dona, dona, don.
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Dona, dona, dona, donna; Dona, dona, dona, don.
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"Stop complaining," said the farmer, "Who told you a calf to be,
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Why don't you have wings to fly with, Like the swallow so proud and free?" ++
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Calves are easily bound and slaughtered, Never knowing the reason why,
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But whoever treasures freedom, Like the swallow has learned to fly. ++
