Words & Music by Cyril Tawney

(Recorded by Tom Lewis on Sea-Dog, See Dog!)

Skipper's in the wardroom drinking gin, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

I don't mind knocking but I ain't going in, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

'Jimmy's' laughing like a drain, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

Been looking at m' 'comic cuts' again. (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

Chorus:

Chicken on a raft on a Monday morning, oh what a terrible sight to see,

'Dabtoes' for'd and the Dustmen aft, sitting there picking at a 'chicken on a raft'.

Hey -oh, chicken on a raft, Oy -oh, chicken on a raft.

Hey -oh, chicken on a raft, Oy -oh, chicken on a raft.

They gave me the Middle and the Forenoon too, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

And now I'm pulling in the whaler's crew, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

Seagulls wheeling overhead, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

I ought to be 'flogging' in a feather bed. (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

I had a little girl in 'Donny B', (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

And oh, she made a fool of me, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

Her heart was like a Pusser's shower, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

From hot to cold in a quarter of an hour. (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

An Amazon girl lives in Dumfries, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

She only has kids in twos and threes, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

Her sister lives in Maryhill, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

She says she won't but I think she will. (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

We kissed goodbye on the midnight bus, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

She didn't cry, she didn't fuss, (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

Am I the man that she loves best? (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

Or am I just a cuckoo in another man's nest? (Hey -oh, chicken on a raft)

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