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Lyr Req: Seven Drunken Nights

03 Mar 97 - 09:03 PM (#2772)
Subject: Seven Drunken Nights
From: mackay

I'm trying to find the final verse to that classic, raunchy tune Seven Drunken Nights. If you know the song, you know what I'm talking about. As far as I can remember it goes something like this:

As I came home on Sunday night, as drunk as drunk could be,
I saw a thing there in the thing, where my old thing should be.
So I call to the wife and I says to her, "Hey wife! Could you kindly tell to me,
Who owns that thing there in the thing where my old thing should be?"
"Ah, yer drunk, yer drunk, you silly old fool, till ya cannot see.
Sure, that's a lovely cucumber me mother sent to me."
As many's a day I've travelled, a hundred miles or more,
But a cucumber with...

And that's all I know. Any help is truly appreciated.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 9-Aug-02.

04 Mar 97 - 01:28 AM (#2779)
Subject: RE: Seven Drunken Nights
From: Moira Cameron

It's in the DT under the title "Five Nights Drunk"

Here it is: (click)

04 Mar 97 - 01:47 AM (#2780)
Subject: Lyr Add: SEVEN DRUNKEN NIGHTS
From: walkerje@aviano.af.mil

The last verse I know comes from Steve, the piano player in Durty Nelly's on the River Walk in San Antonio, and it goes:

When I came home on Saturday night, as drunk as drunk could be,
I saw a man runnin' from me door at a quarter past three.
I says to me wife, the joy of me life, "Could ye kindly tell to me,
Who is that man runnin' from me door at a quarter past three?"
And she said... (etc.)
"'Tis an English tax collector the Queen has sent to me."
Now 'tis many a night I've travelled, a thousand mile or more,
But an Englishman who can last past three, sure I've never seen that before.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 9-Aug-02.

04 Mar 97 - 03:20 PM (#2809)
Subject: RE: Seven Drunken Nights
From: mackay

I'm looking for the words for Sunday night, the SEVENTH drunken night. Not many people know it because it's pretty offensive. Someone out there must know it. Again, all help is greatly appreciated.

05 Mar 97 - 04:24 PM (#2857)
Subject: RE: Seven Drunken Nights
From: mackay

Got everything I need now. It was: "A cucumber with a foreskin sure I've never seen before." Someone should add this classic to the database!

30 May 98 - 05:04 AM (#29683)
Subject: Lyr Add: SEVEN DRUNKEN NIGHTS
From: Ezio

SEVEN DRUNKEN NIGHTS

When I got home on Saturday night as drunk as drunk could be,
I saw a head upon the bed where my ould head should be.
So I called to my wife an' said to her, "Now is this fair to me?
Whose is the head upon the bed where my ould head should be?"
Ah y're drunk, y're drunk, yuh silly old thing. Still y' cannot see.
That's a loverly baby that me mother sent to me."
Well, it's many a day I travelled, a hundred miles or more,
But a whiskers on a baby, sure, I've never seen before!

And when I got home on Sunday night as drunk as drunk could be,
I saw a thing within the thing where my ould thing should be.
So I called to my wife an' said to her, "Now is this fair to me?
Whose is the thing within the thing where my ould thing should be?"
Ah y're drunk, y're drunk, yuh silly old thing. Still y' cannot see.
That's a loverly carrot that me mother sent to me."
Well, it's many a day I travelled, a hundred miles or more,
But a foreskin on a carrot, sure, I've never seen before!

(Recorded by The Dubliners)

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e.b.

31 May 98 - 02:45 AM (#29738)
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Seven drunken nights
From: farris

For more lyrics to this song, check the database under "Five Nights Drunk (Our Goodman)." (Don't know how to attach the lnk, sorry.)

31 May 98 - 03:53 AM (#29740)
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Seven drunken nights
From: Joe Offer

....I'd been wondering what they did on Saturday and Sunday.....now, I'm not sure why I wanted to know.
-Joe Offer-

31 May 98 - 05:38 AM (#29741)
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Seven drunken nights
From: Alan of Australia

G'day,
How do you circumcise a whale?
Send down four skin divers.

Cheers,
Alan

01 Jun 98 - 04:48 AM (#29768)
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Seven drunken nights
From: Joe Offer

I would be quite circumspect doing that circumcision.....
-Joe Offer-

01 Jun 98 - 02:13 PM (#29787)
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Seven drunken nights
From: Roger Himler

I was researching for another thread (Lyric Add: born about 10,000 years ago). Picked out my old copy of Blood, Booze, 'n Bones, Elektra 108, recorded by Ed Mc Curdy.

He credits this tune to Child #274 stating it was originally a Scottish ballad.

Roger in Baltimore

01 Jun 98 - 02:18 PM (#29789)
Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Seven drunken nights
From: Joe Offer

Darn it, Roger, why doesn't Elektra reissue some of those gems?
-Joe Offer-