Burl Ives

The Doughnut Song(Chords)

Burl Ives

Key: D

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Standard EADGBe Tuning 

Intro: 
| D - | D - | A - | A - | 

         D 
When you walk the streets you'll have no cares 
       A 
If you walk the lines and not the squares 
       D 
As you go through life make this your goal 
A                D 
Watch the donut, not the hole 

| D - | D - | A - | A - | 

     D 
It's written on the rainbow 
   G               D 
In letters made of gold 
G              D 
Written on the rainbow 
                    A 
There's wisdom to behold 
   D 
My friend the little sparrow 
     G               D 
Flew close enough to see 
G            D 
Written on a rainbow 
   A           D 
Is this philosophy 

         D 
When you walk the streets you'll have no cares 
       A 
If you walk the lines and not the squares 
       D 
As you go through life make this your goal 
A                D 
Watch the donut, not the hole 

| D - | D - | A - | A - | 

     D 
It's written on the rainbow 
   G               D 
In letters made of gold 
G              D 
Written on the rainbow 
                    A 
There's wisdom to behold 
   D 
My friend the little sparrow 
 G                D 
Agrees it must be so 
G             D 
Little angels wrote it 
   A                    D 
So folks on earth would know 

         D 
When you walk the streets you'll have no cares 
       A 
If you walk the lines and not the squares 
       D 
As you go through life make this your goal 
A                D 
Watch the donut, not the hole 

KEY CHANGE to Eb 

| Eb - | Eb - | Ab - | Eb - | 
| Ab - | Eb - | Eb - | Bb - | 
| Eb - | Eb - | Ab - | Eb - | 
| Ab - | Eb - | Bb - | Eb - | 

         Eb 
When you walk the streets you'll have no cares 
       Bb 
If you walk the lines and not the squares 
       Eb 
As you go through life make this your goal 
Bb               Eb 
Watch the donut, not the hole 
Bb               Eb 
Watch the donut, not the hole 

KEY CHANGE to F 

| F - | F - | C - | C - | 

    F 
I'm off to jolly England 
      Bb                F 
Where bulldogs all wear pants 
Bb          F 
Off to Pago Pago 
                 C 
Where alligators dance 
   F 
My friend the little sparrow 
     Bb               F 
Will take me where he flies 
Bb          F 
Even to the rainbow 
   C                F 
To read with my own eyes 

         F 
When you walk the streets you'll have no cares 
       C 
If you walk the lines and not the squares 
       F 
As you go through life make this your goal 
C                F 
Watch the donut, not the hole 

| F - | F - | C - | C - | 

     F 
It's written on the rainbow 
   Bb              F 
In letters made of gold 
Bb             F 
Written on the rainbow 
                    C 
There's wisdom to behold 
   F 
My friend the little sparrow 
     Bb              F 
Flew close enough to see 
Bb           F 
Written on a rainbow 
   C           F 
Is this philosophy 

         F 
When you walk the streets you'll have no cares 
       C 
If you walk the lines and not the squares 
       F 
As you go through life make this your goal 
C                F 
Watch the donut, not the hole 
C                F 
Watch the donut, not the hole
	        

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