7 Drunk Nights, Sonny Boy Williamson performance

Subject: 7 DRUNK NIGHTS SONNY BOY WILIAMSON
From: The Sandman
Date: 27 Dec 24 - 05:15 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWRJUSvZDuY AMERICAN VERSION of 7 drunken nights

Subject: RE: 7 DRUNK NIGHTS SONNY BOY WILIAMSON
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Dec 24 - 05:29 PM

Turn off your CAPSLOCK, Dick!!

Subject: RE: 7 Drunk Nights, Sonny Boy Williamson performance
From: The Sandman
Date: 28 Dec 24 - 04:21 AM

if this site had an edit button, i would have done so and saved you the job.

Subject: RE: 7 Drunk Nights, Sonny Boy Williamson performance
From: GUEST,PHJim
Date: 01 Jan 25 - 01:31 AM

I have always added the last verse:
"head on my pillow"
"a melon that my mother sent to me"
"a moustache on a melon. . ."

Subject: RE: 7 Drunk Nights, Sonny Boy Williamson performance
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 01 Jan 25 - 05:22 AM

Guest PHJim

I've never heard Melon in any version. The penultimate verse is normally a cabbage with a moustache.

The final verse is a carrot plus accoutrements.

Subject: RE: 7 Drunk Nights, Sonny Boy Williamson performance
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jan 25 - 01:50 PM

I think it was Roger Abrahams who collected a verse from some black kids in Philadelphia; was a thing, sitting in her thing, ain't nothing but a cucumber my mother gave to me. I heard the tape when Hedy West was leading a class in ballads at Stonybrook.

Subject: RE: 7 Drunk Nights, Sonny Boy Williamson performance
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 01 Jan 25 - 03:47 PM

I can tell you one group that sang "melon" rather than "cabbage":
the Weavers, on their Weavers At Home Vanguard album.