dona，dona这首歌是由Joan Baez演唱。1941年1月9日出生于美国纽约Staten岛上的她被称为“民谣女王”。Baez作为民谣界女性权威演绎者的地位是在1959年Newprot民谣节上的演出后奠定的.她对民谣音乐的理解加上天生的近乎完美的嗓音使得她成为50年代之后民谣音乐中的一棵奇葩.
Baez最初的四张专辑均取材于美洲与英国的传统民谣,然而随着民权运动的发展,她开始逐渐投身于抗议运动,这才让Baez成为真正有内容与个性的Joan Baez.
进入八九十年代,Joan Baez把自己的生活分为两个方面:人道主义运动与音乐方面.在前者,她于1979年创立了国际人权社,于后者,Joan Baez又有多张广受好评的专辑,包括1989年纪念从艺30年的SPEAKING OF DREAMS专辑.Joan Baez前期作为一位民谣歌手,后期作为一位人道主义歌手,都决定了她是廿世纪50年代之后的一位伟大的歌手.
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
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona 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 away
Like the swallow so proud and free?"
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 dona
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why.
But whoever treasures freedom,
Like the swallow has learn to fly
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 dona
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona dona