1. On a wagon bound for market
There's a calf with a mournful eye.
High above him there's a swallow
Winging swiftly through the sky.
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer's night.
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona down
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona don
2. "Stop complaining," said the farmer
"Who told you a calf to be;
Why don't you have wings to fly away
Like the swallow so proud and free?"
3. Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why.
But whoever treasures freedom,
Like the swallow must learn to fly
1. Trên chuyến xe bò hướng về chợ
chú bò con buồn phiền mắt ngó
trên trời cao cánh én xoải dài
bay xa tắp qua bầu trời đó
Làn gió kia đang cười ngất
cười như không có ngày mai
tiếng cười như vang vọng mãi
suốt cả ngày dài, qua cả đêm hè sâu....
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona dona
Dona dona dona dona
2.Than phiền cái chi, người nông phu nói,
mi là bò con, khóc cái gì
ai bảo mi không có cánh bay đi
như én đó, hiên ngang đầy kiêu hùng đó
3. Làm kiếp bò, để người bắt giết,
có bao giờ bò biết lý do tại sao đâu
nhưng ai yêu quý quãng trời không độc lập
phải như én, tập bay cao bay xa mãi...
We wonder why parents and children are oftens incompatible. The cause of this is the difference of points of view.
The olders have much experience of life. They have spent all their life to suffer great hardship/ to go through the mill. So, they understand the human values. They used to have an ebullient youth. They can see their images in their children. They used to quarrel with their parents. They learned lessons from their mistakes. And now they don’t want their children get the same their mistakes.
But the youngers have hungry for success. They want to prove their skills. They want to become famous people. They want to devote their young life. Most of them are hasty. With their power of young, they want to get success rapidly. They think that they are the centre of people.
The fact that some of the young people are very talents. More and more young people get great achivements which made the olders to envy. The youth always enterprising. But If they get to failure, they often dishearten. In this case they fall into debauch easily. They have no experience to go through the mill. They always get failure by oversimplification of problems.
But with their enthusiasm of creative labour and passion for discoveries, they also continute to face new hardship.
They often imitate their friends to catch up with their friends, which make their parents worry about them very much. They don’t think their parents are interested in them. They just want to escape from their parents control. They think that they always right.
Nowadays, more and more young people go abroad to study at famous universities and colleges, especially the US and the UK.
Most of these young people come from the rich families and their parents want their children to be educated well.
Obviously, the students in advance countries have to pay for the expensive school fees and accomodation. But they are carefully educated in modern schools with advance libraries, the well-equiped labs and especially the good teaching-staff.
When they graduate from the universities, their degrees are internationally-recognized, and when they come back to Vietnam, they can find good jobs.
I hope that one day I have a chance to go overseas to learn more things and visit the famous landscapes in the world. And I want to test my courage in strange environment, and of course I want to improve my english.
I think that our country needs university graduate students with real ability no matter where they come from.
WIDGETIZE