The Donut

1 week ago by @mikedelaney

Liner Notes

#folk
A homage to my home town, Quincy, Massachusetts

Lyrics

The Donut – Mike Delaney for FAWM25

Back in the fifties
Near the Lighthouse Gas Station
Was the first Dunkin’ Donuts
In all of this great nation

On the new Southern Artery
The first Dunkin’ shop
Now more than 12,000
Will their growth ever stop?

Chorus:
Let’s hear it for the donut
As well-known as a haircut
Made Quincy famous
Eat a donut—it’s painless
It fills your stomach
And warms your soul
Honor the donut
But don’t forget about the hole

Way back in the eighteen hundreds
There’s another donut story
It’s really pretty neat
And put Quincy in its glory

Hanson Crockett Gregory
Was the young cook on a schooner
He made an important invention
It was more than a rumor

Chorus

He used lard to fry dough
But there was a fatal flaw
The outside would be cooked
But the inside was raw

He was a wise young cook
And made a critical cut
Took out the middle of the dough
And invented the… dough-nut

Chorus

He became a ship’s Captain
Lived decades without a care
Ending in the Quincy’s Sailor’s Home
In a grave he’s buried there.

When his gravestone went missing
His Dunkin’ Donuts friends
Got him a brand new one
So you can see it once again

So, remember Captain Hanson Crockett Gregory
And his important role
Keep him in your heart…and your arteries…
Whenever your donut has a hole!

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