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“Seven Drunken Nights“ is an Irish version of a humorous folk song most famously performed by The Dubliners.
The song is first found in a London broadside of the 1760s entitled “The Merry Cuckold and the Kind Wife“. The broadside was translated into German, and spread into Hungary and Scandinavia. Unaware of the origin of the German ballad, Child cited it as an analogy. It was also collected in Scotland in the 1770s and was believed to be a Scottish song. Unusually for such a popular and widespread song, it appears in only a few nineteenth century broadsides.[3][4]
Folk tradition
The structure and bawdy nature of the song allow it to be sung from memory by convivial companies. Among polite audiences only five of the seven nights usually are sung because of the vulgar nature of the final two. Each night is a verse, followed by a chorus, in which the narrator comes home in a drunken state to find evidence of another man having been with his wife, which she exp
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