Chicken of a Raft

Chicken of a Raft

Chicken on a Raft
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Skipper's in the wardroom drinking gin,
I don't mind knocking but I ain't going in,
'Jimmy's' laughing like a drain,
Been looking at m' 'comic cuts' again.

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,
And now I'm pulling in the whaler's crew,
Seagulls wheeling overhead,
I ought to be 'flogging' in a feather bed.

I had a little girl in 'Donny B',
And oh, she made a fool of me,
Her heart was like a Pusser's shower,
From hot to cold in a quarter of an hour.

An Amazon girl lives in Dumfries,
She only has kids in twos and threes,
Her sister lives in Maryhill,
She says she won't but I think she will.

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