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Joan Baez – Donna Donna Lyrics 15 years ago
Correct that, Joan Baez wrote the song originally, oops!

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Joan Baez – Donna Donna Lyrics 15 years ago
I believe Donovan wrote this song as a metaphor of the events of the holocaust. The calf in the wagon represents a Jewish person, the swallow as the non-Jewish Aryan, the wind as the Nazi soldiers, and as a side-note, the farmer is the slave driver sending the calf to the market (gas camps) for slaughter.

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