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Thread #130720   Message #2943237
Posted By: GUEST,Gerry
10-Jul-10 - 08:55 PM
Thread Name: song about Husband wearing lover's pants
Subject: Husband wearing lover's pants
There are many songs in which a woman has to hide her lover when her husband comes home unexpectedly. The French-Canadian band Genticorum do one which has a development I've not come across in any English-language ballad. The husband gets in bed with his wife. She makes believe she's sick, so he'll go to the pharmacy to get her some medicine, giving the lover a chance to escape. But the husband accidentally puts on the lover's pants, and when he reaches into the pockets to pay the pharmacist and finds 15 gold coins there, he realizes he has been cuckolded. He consoles himself by spending the money at the tavern.

Is there an English-language ballad that has this idea of the husband accidentally wearing the lover's clothing, and said clothing being crucial in his discovery of his wife's deception?