Donut Song - Burl Ives

When you walk the streets you’ll have no cares

If you walk the lines and not the squares

As you go through life make this your goal

Watch the donut, not the hole

It’s written on the rainbow

In letters made of gold

Written on the rainbow

There’s wisdom to behold

My friends the little sparrow

Flew close enough to see

Written on the rainbow

Is this philosophy

It’s written on the rainbow

In letters made of gold

Written on the rainbow

There’s wisdom to behold

My friend the little sparrow

Agrees it must be so

Little angels wrote it

So folks on earth would know

(instrumental)

Watch the donut, not the hole

I’m off to jolly England

Where bulldogs all wear pants

Off to Pango Pango

Where alligators dance

My friend the little sparrow

Will take me when he flies

Even to the rainbow

To read with my own eyes

It’s written on the rainbow

In letters made of gold

Written on the rainbow

There’s wisdom to behold

My friend the little sparrow

Flew close enough to see

Written on the rainbow

Is this philosophy

Watch the donut, not the hole!