DADGAD & Irish music
I BURIED MY WIFE AND DANCED ON THE TOP OF HER GRAVE (jig)
"I buried my wife and danced on the top of her grave" is a traditional jig in D mixolydian. It has two parts of 8 bars each. Each part are repeated twice
To start with, you can use just two chords
A
B
Then we can move the chords. For example, on the 4th bar, we have an F# and a G, so we can try to make a G like that:
You can play one in the last bar of the first part too.
On the second part we can put a B minor in place of the D in the third bar, which gives us a rising bass, with power chords:
The chords would look like this:
A
B
Then you can have some fun and go further, for example by substituting with 7th chords. By keeping a chord over two bars, we create a descent and then an ascent to C major at the end of the part to create a certain tension before starting again on part A:
Using these chords:
You can listen to this jig on the album "Playing with fire" by the band Dervish (1995).