I Buried My Wife And Danced On Top Of Her

Along with its original name, this tune is a great one to play. Enjoy! ; )

# Posted on November 17th 2001 by Josh Kane

I Buried My Wife

Jeremy posted a version of this ages ago, although to me it was closer to Frieze Britches, a related but disinct tune.

The version I go by is in D major, and has been widely recorded, notably by Martin Hayes.

In Josh's post here, I'm assuming those C's are meant to be little c's?

# Posted on November 18th 2001 by Miss Lonelyhearts

Correction

Yes, my careless mistake. The C's are supposed to be little c's. I'm sorry for the confusion, if any.

# Posted on November 18th 2001 by Josh Kane

Jack Wright & I like to call this one "I'll bury your wife & dance on her grave"

# Posted on November 19th 2001 by Brad Maloney

This Setting via Seattle

This setting comes from "Smoke In Your Eyes - A Complilation of Irish Tunes Played at Seattle Sessions" as collected by Caoimhin Gaimh.

It's not surprising that Josh and I have the same setting for this tune as we both share the same teacher, Skip Healy (www.skiphealy.com), who is a good friend of Caoimhin and spends a lot of time out there at various tionols and trad events.

I don't know if this makes this setting more or less legitimate, but that's where it comes from.

Take care,
John Harvey
http://www.rhodeirish.net

# Posted on November 19th 2001 by Jdharv

Name Confusion

O'Neill's lists this as "The Frieze Breeches" with the alternate title "I Buried My Wife And Danced On Top Of Her".

# Posted on November 20th 2001 by JeffK627

Other sets

I learned this tune a while ago in Dublin from Patricia Logan ,(excellent piper and teacher), learned it as the second tune in a set, first being, East of Glendart (Humours of Glendart) this one, and to wrap up with Sean Bui, three fairly easy tunes, but good practice especially for beginers!

# Posted on July 9th 2002 by macfion

who wrote this?

# Posted on July 23rd 2005 by ecidralla

I Buried My Wife

We play this as follows, in Dmix (F sharps, c naturals), although sometimes we do the |dcA dcA| phrase in the B part with c sharps because one of our local fiddlers learned it that way from Martin Hayes at a Valley of the Moon workshop.

X: 1
T: I Buried My Wife And Danced On Her Grave
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Dmix
DED F2 G|AdB cAF|~ G3 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|dcA dcA|
d2 e fed|f/g/af gfe|d2 A BAG|1 AFD DFA :|2 AFD D2 E||

# Posted on July 23rd 2005 by Miss Lonelyhearts

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

Key signature: D Major
Submitted on November 18th 2001 by Will Harmon.
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/383

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

Martin Hayes' Version

As noted above, Martin plays it Dmix.

# Posted on August 15th 2006 by Ger the Rigger

i was at a workshop for singing in urm........ what did you call that place.....? i'll get back to you on that......

anyway, we learnt a song called "cunnla dear" the tune was exactly the same to the this tune.... has anyone any info on that...

it went
"who's that there who's knocking the ditches down?"

# Posted on March 19th 2007 by saxwhistle

GOT IT !

MAGHERY, CO. SUMTHING NI NORTHEN IRELAND

PHEW, THE RELIEF!

# Posted on March 20th 2007 by saxwhistle

Cunla - not this tune. A related, but distinct one: Frieze Britches:-

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/34

# Posted on March 26th 2008 by benhall.1