The English “Donna, Donna” — and ’s translation of the Yiddish “Dona Dona,” which put on her 1960 debut and the folk revival made a standard.
made an English version that did not travel; the words that did are and ’s, published in Sing Out! in 1953 and revised for their 1956 pamphlet Tumbalalaika. recorded it as “Donna, Donna” on her 1960 Vanguard debut, and the calf became a folk-revival standard — sung at civil-rights gatherings and covered by in 1965. The Yiddish original, and ’s theater song, is the other catalog page.