Lyr Req: Four Nights Drunk (Steeleye Span)

Subject: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: polaitaly
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 05:12 AM

I tried to make out the words by myself but I couldn't. I know there are a lot similar on the DigiTrad, but no this one...Can someone help me?
ciao a tutti
paola

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 05:15 AM

Click here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: polaitaly
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 05:50 AM

Faster than light! Thank you! And you made me discover a wonderful site for English folk, too!! So, thank you again.
Bye
paola

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: Brian Peters
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 07:03 AM

A different take on the song here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 09:57 AM

When I was doing Irish Pubs in America , Mary only let me sing Five Nights !
And That one you did looks stealable , Brian !

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 10:31 AM

FWIW, the tune MC uses on Ten Man Mop is a reel called "The Primrose Girl."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: Brian Peters
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 04:44 AM

>> That one you did looks stealable , Brian !<<

Steal it by all means, Terry, so long as you credit it (the words are mine - tune essentially trad.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 06:27 AM

Thanks Brian ! PM sent

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: EBarnacle
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 08:29 AM

In the early 70's, Oscar Brand did four nights drunk at a pier concert at South Street. I contributed the following:

The other night when I got home,
As drunk as I could be,
I saw another man in bed,
Where no man ought to be.

I said unto my wife,
I said unto she--
What's that man a doin' there,
Where no man ought to be?

She said: Ye damn fool, Ye stupid fool,
As you can plainly see,
'Tis nothing but a bathtub,
Me mother sent to me.

Many miles have I travelled,
A thousand miles or more,
But such plumbing on a bathtub,
I never saw before.

Oscar began using it, attributing it to "Anon." Thus I entered the canon of trad and anon.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Four night drunk -Steeleye span
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's Apprentice
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 11:16 AM

The Steeleye Span version


Now as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw a horse, no horse should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the horse there, no horse should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a milk cow me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Saddle on a milk cow I've never seen before

And as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw boots, no boots should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the boots there, no boots should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a flower pot me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Laces on a flower pot I've never seen before

And as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw a hat, no hat should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the hat there, no hat should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a chamber pot me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Sweat-band on a chamber pot I've never seen before

And as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw a man, no man should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the man there, no man should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a baby me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Whiskers on a baby I've never seen before