Delaware County

Delaware County was named for the state.

The one that's right next to Jersey.

The county seat, Manchester's, named for the town

That's just 'cross the Atlantic Sea.

The courthouse was built in Eighteen ninety-four,

The theater in Nineteen thirty-five.

There is whitewater rafting right through the downtown,

And a hatchery where trout can survive.

Here in Delaware County, you also will find

The oldest state park in the state.

Backbone, it's called, rocky cliffs and a stream,

Oaks and maples, limestone, dolomite.

In Hopkinton, there's an old college called Lenox.

It closed in Nineteen forty-four.

A graduate there became Golden State governor

In the years 'fore the Second World War.