Dona Dona (Dragon Remix)

Thorin N. Tatge

To “Dona Dona” (orig. “Dana Dana”), by Arthur Kevess & Teddi Schwartz

Once a dragon spied a pasture

And a calf with mournful eye

Feeling it would be good to swallow

He winged down swiftly through the sky

CHORUS:

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 don

Dona dona dona dona

Dona dona dona don.

“Halt!” the calf cried to the dragon.

“This is monstrously unfair!

Who gave you the wings to fly with

Unsupported through the air?”

CHORUS

“Stop complaining,” said the dragon;

“Who told you a calf to be?

You could too have been a dragon

If you weren’t so cowardly.”

CHORUS

Calves before their birth are earthbound

Soon forgetting the reason why:

Years of sweltering incubation

Are the price for those who fly.

LAST CHORUS:

How our wings are laughing

They laugh with all their might!

Laugh us through the summer sky

And well into the night.

Dona dona…