Four Nights Drunk (child 274)

Four Nights Drunk Sheila K Adams Child Ballad # 274 This a shortened version of Our Goodman. As said in the intro to the song other variations have seven verses. All variations are about a man coming home drunk and finding different things that belong to his wife’s lover. The wife calls the man a blind old fool explaining away the evidence. The song goes by many names Four Nights Drunk, Four Drunken Nights, Seven Drunken Nights, Drunkard’s Special, Cabbage Head, The Goodman, The Gudeman and so on. This