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Thread #7291   Message #43908
Posted By: Joe Offer
02-Nov-98 - 01:23 PM
Thread Name: ADD Versions: Seven Drunken Nights-languages
Subject: RE: seven drunken nights
If you search the database under #274 (it's Child Ballad #274), you'll find three versions. I guess the best way to find it in the forum would be to put drunk, drunken, or goodman in the subject line - putting it in the message body area would bring up far too much material, since we talk about our besotten brethren quite often here. I'll betcha there are half a dozen versions of the song posted in the forum, including the salacious details of the sixth and seventh nights....
Now, the recording of the song I like best is called "You Old Fool" by the Weavers - Ronnie Gilbert and Lee Hays sing it, and I can see the twinkle in Lee's eye as I listen to the recording. It's on their Vanguard box set, and I'm sure it's on a number of other Weavers recordings. Sorry kids, I think the Weavers song covers only the first five nights.
-Joe Offer-