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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,Yves B	Chicken on a Raft (32)	RE: Chicken on a Raft	26 Nov 25
Understanding the lyrics of this song is quite an absorbing query,indeed. I can add that Cyril Tawney himself confirmed that the chicken and its raft are fried egg and a slice of dito bread: you can find his statement in his explanatory notes on the backside of the case of his 1972 vinyl LP 'In Port'. But I have another, nagging, question: where or what, for God's sake, or even who, is 'Donny B'? Nowhere do I find any comment on this, no geographical or other reference. Tawney himself doesn't explain it either. I wonder whether the answer is so all-evident that nobody gives it any attention... Is it something utterly British? I am just a Belgian, (a member of the Blankenberge Shanty-choir)... Who can help me out?

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