Chicken on a Raft
(Cyril Tawny)

Skipper's in the ward room drinking gin

Hi, Ho, Chicken on a raft

I don't mind knocking but I ain't goin' in

Hi, Ho, Chicken on a raft

Jimmy's laughing like a drain

Hi, Ho, Chicken on a raft

Been looking at his comic cuts again

Hi, Ho, Chicken on a raft

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Chicken on a raft on a Monday morning

Oh, what a terrible sight to see

Dab toes forward and the dustman aft

Sitttin' there pickin' at a chicken on a raft

Hi, Ho, Chicken on a raft

Hey, Ho, Chicken on a raft

Hi, Ho, Chicken on a raft

Hey, Ho, Chicken on a raft

They gave me the middle and the fore noon too

And now I'm pulling in a whaler's crew

Seagulls wheelin' over head

I ought to be floatin' in a feather bed

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An amazon girl lived in Dumfries,

she only had her kids in twos and threes

Her sister lives in Mary Hill

She says she won't but I think she will

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I had a little girl in Donny Bay

And didn't she make a fool of me

Her heart was like a prusser's shower

From hot to cold in a quarter of an hour

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We said goodnight 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?

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