Joan Baez - Donna Donna

Joan Baez sings "Donna Donna". July 14 2007, Abenberg, Germany

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[Northcoastman]

In this concert at Burg Abenberg I was sitting in the first row and after her first encore I asked Joan to sing Donna Donna. She smiled and said "Ok" and startet after the sentence: "Never this song was sung as good by the public as in germany. So germans: Sing it with me!"

After Donna Donna she gave three more encores: Gracias a la vida, Imagine and Kinder. It was a great oa-concert at a very special place. Somebody offered Joan a glass of beer wich she drank between the songs with delight.

[Dloomis494]

Wake up. This song was written during the height of Nazism. Stop complaining said the farmer who told you a calf to be. Joan isn't slapping anyone in the face but she sure picked an interesting place to make a point

[aab222]

This song planted the seed of vegetarianism (and now I'm a vegan) for me when I was really young. My mother who lived in Israel for a while, used to sing me this song no matter how much I begged her not to.

[nextmyth]

the crowd chants gave me creepy feling, in a good way 

[RachelEMacD]

that's so sad and beautiful.

[kimbo1950]

Such a sad song. Now in Australia there is an outrage regarding the cattle sent to Indonesian abattoir. They are horrifically tortured till their death. How sad it is to be born just to be slaughtered for food for human consumption. And the way they kill, torture, enormous pain inflicted by Indonesian Halal butchers. Shocking! Please help ban Australian live cattle export. Google and sing petition for ban live export! Animals feel emotions and pain like you and me!

[RedsNMaduroMan]

@GeorgeEliotBoo Aharon Zeitlin was a Yiddish playright and son of Rabbi Hillel Zeitlin, scholar and prose writer, who was murdered in Treblinka in 1942. The song was first performed in the Yiddish stage in NYC soon after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

[GeorgeEliotBoo]

I did the math: This song was founded in New York in Aharon Zeitlin's living room (which didn't look at all like a cattle car !) That poet never used cattle cars for traveling, never went to Auchweiz but was sensible enough to understand the resembleness of cattle's daily life and Jews life in eastern Europe during ww2.

[Mithrilshadow]

all of you who think this song is about freeing animals or what not, you are wrong. Donna Donna was based off of a poem found in a cattle car bound for Auschwitz Germany. You do the math, they didn't imprison cattle in Auschwitz.

[GeorgeEliotBoo]

This song was written and composed by jews during the forties when jews could feel what calves feel.

I am jewish and i dont eat meat. Never!

[TitanicFreak19]

it's so beautiful, that i can't describe it.......

.....and so sad.....i always must cry, when i hear that.