I Buried My Wife And Danced On Her Grave

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on November 18th 2001 by Will Harmon.

This tune has been added to 368 tunebooks.

Also known as I Buried My Wife, I Buried My Wife And Danced On Top Of Her, I Buried My Wife And Danced On Top Of Her Grave.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

An Gaoth Aduaidh - The North Wind by Various Artists
An Tobar Glé by Neil Mulligan
Celtic Reels And Jigs - The Blackberry Blossom by Various Artists
Comb Your Hair And Curl It by Catherine McEvoy, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh
Dawson's Tumble by Trish Clair-Peck
Drivin' Leitrim Timber by Dave Sheridan
Foinn Seisiun 3 by Ennis/Dublin Session Group
From Leitrim To London by Brian Rooney
Happy To Meet And Sorry To Part by Joe Burke, Michael Cooney And Terry Corcoran
In Full Spate by Paddy Glackin
In Full Swing by Cara
Killultagh by Killultagh
Land Of Sunshine by Dan Possumato
Live At Johnny Fox's by Dervish
Live At Mona's by Various Artists
Live At The Ulster Folk And Transport Museum by Matt Molloy And John Carty With Arty McGlynn
Live In Palma by Dervish
Martin Hayes by Martin Hayes
Masters Of Tradition by Various Artists
Musique Celtique by Rosheen
Playing With Fire by Dervish
Pull The Knife by Killarney
Sean Reid's Favourite by Jimmy O'Brien-Moran
Shatter The Calm by Dan Beimborn
The Green Mountain by Pay The Reckoning
The Pipering Of Willie Clancy. Vol 2 by Willie Clancy
The Rocky Road by Michael Kerry
The Tain Ceili Band by The Tain Ceili Band
Touch Me If You Dare by Ronan Browne And Peter O'Loughlin
Traditional Irish Music From County Clare by Eamon Cotter
Untitled by Liam O'Flynn
Wake by Finnegan's AWake
Where Old Ghosts Meet by Aidan Crossey
Willie Clancy: The Gold Ring - CD 1 Of 2 by Willie Clancy
Wooden Flute Obsession: Volume 2, Disc 1 by Various Artists

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

X: 1
T: I Buried My Wife And Danced On Her Grave
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmaj
|:DED F2 G|AdB =cAF|GFG BAG|FAF GEA|
|DED F2 G|AdB =cAF|GFG BAG|1 AFD D2 E:|2 AFD DFA||
|:d2 e fed|faf gfe|d2 e fed|d=cA d=cA|
|d2 e fed|faf gfe|d2 A BAG|1 AFD DFA:|2 AFD D2 E||

Details ABC Sheetmusic Comments

I Buried My Wife and Danced on Her Grave

I'm concerned that we have several versions of this floating around on this site, but one is actually Frieze Britches, a similar but different tune, and the other (I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her) matches no version I've ever heard.

Which left us without a session-able version--one that would likely fit in with what's more commonly played under this name at sessions here and beyond. I think one of this site's strengths is as a source of widely played versions of tunes. Learn them, and you can sit in at sessions everywhere. So I've posted that more common version here.

This is based on Martin Hayes' playing on his early self-titled cd. He also sometimes playes it sharping the c's in the B Part for a more major (less modal) feel. You can put rolls on those GFG's in the A Part, and don't be afraid to slide into that F in measures 1 and 5 of Part A.

Hope this doesn't ruffle anyone's hackles....
Will

# Posted on November 18th 2001 by Will Harmon

Other recording of tune

I have no other name, but I learned it off Dervish's album "Playing with Fire" (track 6). Good recording too! Jan

# Posted on November 25th 2001 by Jan

This has gone to the top of my 'tunes to learn list'... I sang with Silver Arm over Valentines weekend, and they played this one! (How funny is that??)

# Posted on March 29th 2004 by Oranaiche

# Posted on February 26th 2005 by gian marco

"I Buried My Wife And Danced On Top Of Her" ~ assorted keys

Key signature: D minor
Submitted on November 17th 2001 by Josh Kane.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/381

Key signature: G Major
Submitted on August 29th 2003 by dafydd.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/3121

# Posted on December 6th 2005 by ceolachan

what a name.

# Posted on March 28th 2011 by an fidleir