"Seven Drunken Nights" by oldrottenhead and 64Guitars

[64Guitars]

This song has been around since at least the 1760s when it was known as "The Merry Cuckold and the Kind Wife". It's also known as "Our Goodman". The Irish folk band, The Dubliners, recorded it as "Seven Drunken Nights" in the 1960s. It reached #7 in the UK charts in 1967 and #1 in Ireland. They also performed it on Top of the Pops.

About the recording: The guitar tracks were performed on my Godin xtSA using its piezo bridge transducers and recorded on my BR-864. There are two guitar tracks. One is the strummed chords which are most prominent. For the other, I used a capo at the 12th fret and arpeggiated the chords for a sort of mandolin sound. It's much lower in the mix. Everything else was done on the computer using SoundFonts and my AKAI MPK25 MIDI controller keyboard. The MIDI tracks include violin, pan flute, acoustic bass, and drums. They were recorded with Qtractor (a Linux DAW) and I imported the guitar and vocal tracks into it for final mixing. The vocals were recorded on oldrottenhead's Micro BR.

(Irish Traditional)
vocals by Oldrottenhead
music by 64Guitars

As I went home on Monday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a horse outside the door where my old horse should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that horse outside the door where my old horse should be?

  Ah, you're drunk, you're drunk, you silly old fool. So drunk you cannot see
  That's a lovely sow that me mother sent to me
  Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
  But a saddle on a sow sure I never saw before

As I went home on Tuesday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a coat behind the door where my old coat should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that coat behind the door where my old coat should be

  Ah, you're drunk, you're drunk, you silly old fool. So drunk you cannot see
  That's a woolen blanket that me mother sent to me
  Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
  But buttons in a blanket sure I never saw before

As I went home on Wednesday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a pipe upon the chair where my old pipe should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that pipe upon the chair where my old pipe should be

  Ah, you're drunk, you're drunk, you silly old fool. So drunk you cannot see
  That's a lovely tin whistle that me mother sent to me
  Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
  But tobacco in a tin whistle sure I never saw before

As I went home on Thursday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw two boots beneath the bed where my old boots should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns them boots beneath the bed where my old boots should be

  Ah, you're drunk, you're drunk, you silly old fool. So drunk you cannot see
  They're two lovely Geranium pots me mother sent to me
  Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
  But laces in Geranium pots I never saw before

As I went home on Friday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a head upon the bed where my old rotten head should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that head upon the bed where my old rotten head should be

  Ah, you're drunk, you're drunk, you silly old fool. So drunk you cannot see
  That's a baby boy that me mother sent to me
  Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
  But a baby boy with his whiskers on sure I never saw before

As I went home on Saturday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw two hands upon her breasts where my old hands should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns them hands upon your breasts where my old hands should be

  Ah, you're drunk, you're drunk, you silly old fool. So drunk you cannot see
  That's a lovely night gown that me mother sent to me
  Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
  But fingers in a night gown sure I never saw before

As I went home on Sunday night as drunk as drunk could be
I saw a thing in her thing where my old thing should be
Well, I called me wife and I said to her: Will you kindly tell to me
Who owns that thing inside your thing where my old thing should be

  Ah, you're drunk, you're drunk, you silly old fool. So drunk you cannot see
  That's a lovely tin whistle that me mother sent to me
  Well, it's many a day I've travelled a hundred miles or more
  But hair on a tin whistle sure I never saw before

[Farrell Jackson]

What a good recording and funny song 64 and ORH! It had me grinning and laughing from the first verse to the last 
A perfect choice and a double whammy for the Trad. and Drink song fest!

Farrell

[Jarle]

Hei, SKÅL

[SwanSong]

Wonderful tune. and your rendition still has that
antique feel and sound to it . good collaboration
for sure. a well done production . enjoyed Neil.!

[Redler]

Wow!! Stunning song, btw.... Fabulous job on the music track, 64! Everything is on the right place!! The flute(?) on the chorus is icing on the cake! And Jim's voice is incredible... Top class collab gents! Piepod bound, that's for sure!

[cuthbert]

What a terrific song! Would also qualify for a BawdyFest, if that's what we were having...

Great vocals and delivery, James and a very traditional arrangement, 64G. The guitar sounds acoustic to me, and the violin, pan flute (sounds like a penny whistle! ), bass and drums sound terrific. Excellent collab, fellers!

[fenderbender]

  ;
Get up dah yard yis pair of boyos
brilliant version and super backing 64 -right down to the tin whistle

I was gonna have a shot at it-but not now
James you have a great- Irish accent
so have you 64


Now must have a look for a Scottish folk song and see If I can do an accent on it.

brilliant guys brilliant

[Oldrottenhead]

cheers for this one 64, and i think the first drinking song i've sung sober.

[Geir]

What a great collab!

The music is fab, excellent performance and great choice of sounds. I'm impress of how acoustic that Godin sounds on this one. Did you do anything different this time or is it just the mix?

Great vocals too, but that was hardly a surprise with our knowledge of the olddrunkenhead 

[kenny mac]

Another great party feel song.
I listen to theses songs and imagine myself banging on the door to get in lol.
Brawwwwwwwwww to you both