Skipper in the wardroom drinking gin, Hey-o, chicken on a raft! I don’t mind knocking, but I ain’t a-going in! Hey-o, chicken on a raft! Jimmy’s laughing like a drain, Hey-o, chicken on a raft! Been lookin’ at my comic cuts again, Hey-o, chicken on a raft!
Chorus (repeated after each verse): Chicken on a raft on a Monday morning, Oh, what a terrible sight to see, Dabtoes forrard and the dustmen aft, Sittin’ there a-pickin’ at a chicken on a raft! Hey-o, chicken on a raft! Oy-o, chicken on a raft! Hey-o, chicken on a raft!
Oy-o, chicken on a raft! Well, they gave me the middle and the forenoon too, So now I’m pullin’ in a whalin’ crew. There’s a seagull wheelin’ overhead, I oughter be sleepin’ in a feather bed!
CHO
Well, I had a little girl in Donny B And did she make a fool of me. Her heart ’twas like a pusser’s shower, From hot to cold in a quarter of an hour!
CHO
So we kissed goodbye on the midnight bus But she didn’t cry and she didn’t fuss. So am I the man what she loves best Or am I just a cuckoo in another man’s nest?
CHO
An Amazon girl lived in Dumfries, She only had her kids in twos and threes; And her sister lives in Maryhill, She says she won’t but I think she will!