Talk:Seven Drunken Nights

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I'm surprised that the more popular "interjections" that are sung along with the song haven't been posted. Perhaps their more vulgar nature that puts the song itself to shame is reason not to, but they are the more amusing aspect of singing it in any Irish pub I've been to.

if asked, I'll post them. Tfleming 02:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ill post em, they're an important, and humorous part of the song. Are there others besides bitch and drunken asshole?

Kilkenny Brothers version[edit]

I had a version of this song someone sent me to listen to, as usual misattributed to Flogging Molly. When I listened to it and realized it was a completely different band, after much searching I realized the actual artist was The Kilkenny Brothers. The song's acoustic, with I believe just a guitar and mandolin, and the vocalist has a deeper voice. Here [1] is the Amazon.com page for the band/group, the second one down (click the play button to the left of "Seven Drunken Nights" for the preview) is the one most commonly attributed to Flogging Molly. I don't know how notable this is, other than many search results turn up for this song being performed by Flogging Molly, when in fact they never recorded a version. Zchris87v 20:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Irish, O'rly ?[edit]

As I'm looking for the origins of the song (for instance on archive.org), I cannot find any mention of it in old Irish songbooks, only on Americans. It would be great if anyone could provide sources on the Irish (or not) origin of the song. Skippy le Grand Gourou (talk) 18:29, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with 'Our Goodman'[edit]

This is the same song. I've transferred non-duplication material from the 'Our Goodman' article so that it can be safely deleted. Please see if you can improve on the new structure of this article. Please try to supply references.DavidCrosbie (talk) 16:02, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Brobdingnagian Bards[edit]

The song also appears on two albumns by the Brobdingnagian Bards - Real Men Wear Kilts and The Holy Grail of Irish Drinking Songs (both of which are live recordings as far as I know). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.232.123 (talk) 17:39, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fellatio[edit]

I haven't found the lyrics mentioned below anywhere:

Yet another version of the Sunday night has the even bawdier idea that the husband is interrupting fellatio "I saw a thing (or a yoke) inside her mouth, where my 'aul thing (or yoke) should be", and the wife's reply is suitably muffled, on which the song ends.

So reluctantly I took the text out. If anyone knows a source for that version please restore it with a link to the source. Proxima Centauri (talk) 09:40, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adultery is usually a strong social taboo and breaks secular humanist morality too as it cheats on a partner. In this case the wife has every reason to be fed up with her drunken husband and her lover may be a decent man along lines of, "I will save you from all of this." Proxima Centauri (talk) 10:41, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Another Version[edit]

There is a song ``pretty far out sung by the limeliters, recorded in the early 60's, that is clearly a version of this song - starts with cadillac / freezer / tailfins, but only four verses

108.38.143.218 (talk) 16:01, 19 May 2015 (UTC)C.Landauer[reply]

I added this. Dabbler (talk) 16:54, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Our Goodman[edit]

I'm not sure why Our Goodman was merged with this, but anyway, I have recreated it. I am moving everything that doesn't directly relate to the Dubliners' song back into the parent article. Scolaire (talk) 13:03, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There is much more that is unsourced and not directly relevant, which I may delete in the coming days. Scolaire (talk) 13:48, 21 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sober on the last night?[edit]

I recall having heard a (recorded) version where the man comes home sober on the last night and sees "an ugly thing lying in the bed where my lovely wife should be" after which it transpires that it is indeed his wife, seen without his [beer goggles] on. I haven't been able to locate it, but if anyone can, perhaps it should be added as a variant.SQB (talk) 08:01, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve heard a version that ended on night four in which the wife tries to convince him that it is his own head he sees in the bed. But I can’t locate that one either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1007:B005:DD07:38B9:28D4:1613:6243 (talk) 12:28, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]