Thursday, 18 February 2021
The Pondy Puppy
My daughter sent me two pictures some months back from Pondichery.
she wrote a small piece about a 'Pondy Puppy' but there was not even word as caption for 'pasu'kkutty', The Calf.
I didn't need one either, b'cause sight of calfs always accopanied by the legendary Joan Baez song ('On a wagon bound for market...') in my mind, and once you listen J Baez's, I am sure you will stop eating meat.
She sang this number before a mammoth crowd of music lovers in 1969 and most listeners, I had read some where, stopped meat eating!
Here is the link to Joan Baez song On a wagon... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqzGZ5AaeSs
LYRICS FOLLOWS
On a waggon 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.
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna; Donna, Donna, Donna, Don.
Donna, Donna, Donna, Donna; Donna, Donna, Donna, Don."Stop complaining!“ said the farmer,
Who told you a calf to be ?
Why don`t you have wings to fly with,
like the swallow so proud and free?“ + Chorus
Calves are easily bound and slaughtered,
never knowing the reason why.
But who ever treasures freedom,
like the swallow has learned to fly. + Chorus
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