Joan Baez - Donna Donna

[Intro]
Bm F# Bm

[Verse 1]
Bm   F#     Bm        F#
On a wagon bound for market
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there's a calf with a mournful eye
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  High above him there's a swallow
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winging swiftly through the sky

[Chorus]
A                  D
 How the winds are laughing,
Bm     A                    D     Bm
  they laugh with all their might
A                    D
 Laugh and laugh the whole day
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through and half the summer's night
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Donna donna donna donna,
A                 D   Bm
donna donna donna don
F#                 Bm
Donna donna donna donna,
F#                 Bm F# Bm
donna donna donna don

[Verse 2]
 Bm      F#         Bm       F#
"Stop complaining" said the farmer
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"Who told you a calf to be?
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Why don't you have wings to fly with
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like the swallow, so proud and free?"

[Chorus]
A                  D
 How the winds are laughing,
Bm     A                    D     Bm
  they laugh with all their might
A                    D
 Laugh and laugh the whole day
Bm          F#                 Bm
through and half the summer's night
F#                 Bm
Donna donna donna donna,
A                 D   Bm
donna donna donna don
F#                 Bm
Donna donna donna donna,
F#                 Bm F# Bm
donna donna donna don

[Verse 3]
Bm         F#      Bm        F#
Calves are easily bound and slaughtered,
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never knowing the reason why
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  But whoever treasures freedom like the
  Em          F#        Bm
swallow has learned to fly

[Chorus]
A                  D
 How the winds are laughing,
Bm     A                    D     Bm
  they laugh with all their might
A                    D
 Laugh and laugh the whole day
Bm          F#                 Bm
through and half the summer's night
F#                 Bm
Donna donna donna donna,
A                 D   Bm
donna donna donna don
F#                 Bm
Donna donna donna donna,
F#                  Bm
donna donna donna don

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