The ballad "La Adultera" in Spanish Traditional Ballads from Aragon" includes the following lines:

En donde dejo mi caballo? - En la cuadra lo dejo
Donde dejo mi escopeta? - En ra rincon la dejo.
Donde dejo mi sombrero? - Y en la pueta lo colgo...

And the abstract gives: "A women's husband has left her to go to the mountains (or islands) of Leon. She sets a curse on him so that he will never return. The husband returns and knocks at the door. Her lover, already in the house, has placed his horse, gun, and hat in the places where the husband had kept his. When the husband comes in , he sees the belongings of the other man and inquires to whom they belong. She tells him they all all his, the gifts of her parents (cf. "...just a rolling pin me mother gave to me"). She cannot keep up the lie any longer and tells him to kill her: she has betrayed him.... He kills her."

I wonder if our "Five Nights Drunk" had an earlier life as this type of revenge killing? As Marx says, the first time tragedy, the next time farce.

Jon Bartlett