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Thread #23577   Message #262611
Posted By: Helen
22-Jul-00 - 03:52 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Dona Dona
Subject: RE: Info Request - background of 'Dona Dona'
Hi Bob,

I did a search with Google using the phrase "on a wagon, bound formarket" and found quite a few references to this song. The info at this site was the most comprehensive.

http://www.higginspage.com/songpages/donadona.htm

Dona, Dona

Composer: Secunda, Sholom (1894-1974)

Author (Yiddish): Tsaytlin, Aaron (1899-1974)

Eng: Arthur Kevess & Teddi Schwartz copyright 1940 1956 by Mills Music Inc. Copyright renewed. All rights reserved.

Original written in Yiddish for the show Isterke in 1940. The song was banned in South Korea at one point as "leftist" and"violence-producing". In Kevess & Schwartz "Tumbalalaika". On "Joan Baez" (Vang) & in her SB. Donovan "Best of" & "Pye History of Pop" & on "Hava Nagila Festival - Et All" (Tara).

Do you have the chords for this? If you do you can just list them without trying to fit them to the lyrics because I know where the chord changes are but don't remember all the chords. It used to be the only song I could play on guitar "Em Am Em Am" and that's all I remember.

Helen