"Five Nights Drunk" is a variation of the Scottish folk song "Our Goodman". 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. "Our Goodman" was collected in Scotland in the 1770s. Another version was found in a London broadside of the 1760s entitled "The Merry Cuckold and the Kind Wife". The broadside was translated into German, and spread into Hungary and Scandinavia. Unusually for such a popular and widespread song, it appears in only a few nineteenth century broadsides. Sometimes verses are added or omitted and the ballad is known as Three, Four, Five, Six or Seven Nights Drunk. The song appeared in David Herd's Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs (1776). Another version appeared in R. A. Smith's The Scottish Minstrel (1823), as "Hame Cam Our Gudeman at E'en". It was printed in F. J. Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (#274). It also appears in the Roud Folk Song Index (#114) which has over 400 versions. It is included in the Anthology of American Folk Music. It was recorded by Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett, Harry Cox, Ed McCurdy, John Jacob Niles, Ewan MacColl, The Dubliners (as "Seven Nights Drunk") and Steeleye Span (as "Five Nights Drunk" but there are six nights included) and many others.