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The audacious jump of the Scorpion and the song “Donna Donna”

The yoga teacher Caterina Rossi Cairo shows the position of the Scorpion. Tom Dean accompanies the pictures singing “Donna Donna”, a traditional Yiddish song, with the lyrics:

“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.
“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?”

An audacious and pondered jump
… of the Scorpion
and the elegant returning.
Why don’t you have wings to fly with, …
… Like the swallow so proud and free?
Donna, Donna, Donna …