Joan Baez

Dona Dona Chords

by Joan Baez
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Dona Dona (Joan Baez) >This song should be finger-picked the whole way through. You choose the >pattern. Usually, starting up from the bottom of the chord and plucking >however many strings are left to get to, over the space of one beat, >works fairly well (except at the ends of the second and fourth lines of >each verse, and the where you only have half a beat for each chord)                  Em  D      Em        D   Verse (I): On a wagon .................                   Em        C           Em   D   B7                   There's a ...............................                    Em     D       Em        D                     High above ..........................
                   Em          C      Am      B7  Em       D                    Winging .............................                 D             (C) G         Chorus: How the ...................                G7   D                    G                They .................................                D                 G     C   Em      Am                Laugh .......................................                B7              Em                Half ........................                D         B7   Em               dona dona .........               D              G               Dona ...............               B7         Em                           Dona ............               Em   (Am) B7sus6 B7 Em               Dona ...............................                          This is one of my favorite - and less well-known - Baez songs; enjoy!                                                                          Vera Broekhuysen

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Last Updated: September 10, 2025