I can't hear him calling like I used to before I came through the gateway and I heard the sergeant say"The big boys are a coming, see their stands across the way"And the rains softly falling and the Oggie man's no more...</blockquote> In addition to presenting traditional ditties, Tawney composed a number of his own songs, the majority being written when he was in the Royal Navy and relating to that period – for example, "Chicken on a Raft", which belongs to the call and response style of sea shanties. The song makes reference to an unpopular dish served in the Royal Navy, consisting of fried egg on fried bread and called "chicken on a raft." The chorus is as follows: Chicken on a raft on a Monday morning, Oh, what a terrible sight to see, The Dabtoes forrard and the dustmen aft, Sittin' there a'pickin' at a chicken on a raft! The song was recorded by The Young Tradition, on their 1967 EP also titled Chicken on a Raft. Tawney's song, "Sally Free And Easy", written in the late 1950s, was covered by numerous folk artists, including Carolyn Hester, Dorris Henderson and John Renbourn, Davey Graham, Pentangle, The Corries, Marianne Faithfull, Alan Stivell and Bob Dylan. The song is about an affair Tawney had with a girl who cheated on him. "... and when he was out in Gibraltar during the war, he was in the submarine service and he had rather an unfortunate affair with a girl, who two-timed him and her name was Sally and he wrote a song about it called "Sally Free and Easy". – Roy Williamson, introducing the song on the album "The Corries in Concert" Beginning in 1972, Tawney studied English and History at Lancaster University. After he graduated, he admitted to a master's degree from the Leeds University Institute of Dialect and Folklife Studies. In 1987, Tawney's book Grey Funnel Lines: Traditional Song and Verse of the Royal Navy 1900 to 1970, was published by Routledge. Tawney's last public performance was at Easter 2004, at the Lancaster Maritime Festival. He died of a bacterial infection at Exeter in 2005 after a long illness."Obituaries: Cyril Tawney (1930–2005)", Roy Palmer. Folk Music Journal. London: 2006. Vol.9, Issue 1; page 141. DiscographyThe Outlandish Knight, 1969Children's Songs from Devon and Cornwall, 1970A Mayflower Garland, 1970Down Among the Barley Straw, 1971 (first released 1976)In Port (with The