Chicken on a Raft

Skipper's in the ward room drinking gin

"Hey ho chicken on a raft"
I don't mind knockin' but I ain't goin' in

"Hi ho chicken on a raft"

Jimmy's laughin' like a drain

"Hey ho chicken on a raft "

He's looking at the comic cuts again

"Hi ho chicken on a raft "

CHORUS:
Chicken on a raft on a Monday morning oh what a terrible sight to see
With the dab toes for'ard and the dustmen aft
Sittin' there a pickin' at a chicken on a raft

Hey ho chicken on a raft

Hi ho chicken on a raft

Hey ho chicken on a raft

Hi ho chicken on a raft

They gave me the middle & the forenoon too
Now I'm pulling in a whaler's crew
Seagull wheeling overhead
Oh to be floating in a feather bed

CHORUS

We kissed goodbye on the midnight bus
She didn't cry she didn't fuss
Am I the one that she loves best
Or am I just a cuckoo in another man's nest

CHORUS

Had myself a girl lived in Dumfries
She only had her kids in twos and threes
Her sister lives in Maryhill
She says she won't but I think she will

Well I had another girl in Donnie Bee
And didn't she make a fool of me
Her heart was like a passer shower
From hot to cold in a quarter of an hour


By Cyril Tawney. From the album Navy Cuts by Cyril Tawney.