"Seven Drunken Nights" | ||||
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Single by The Dubliners | ||||
from the album A Drop of the Hard Stuff | ||||
B-side | "Paddy on the Railway" | |||
Released | 30 March 1967 | |||
Genre | Folk, Irish, pop | |||
Length | 3:45 | |||
Label | Major Minor | |||
Songwriter(s) | Traditional | |||
Producer(s) | Tommy Scott | |||
The Dubliners singles chronology | ||||
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"Seven Drunken Nights" is a humorous Irish folk song most famously performed by The Dubliners. It is a variation of the English/Scottish folk song "Our Goodman" (Child 274, Roud 114). It tells the story of a gullible drunkard returning night after night to see new evidence of his wife's lover, only to be taken in by increasingly implausible explanations.