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Sweet nightingale - stevens

Found in SBG_PC_VOL_1.abc from the David Jacobs abc collection
Sweet nightingale - stevens - staff notation
I:abc-charset utf-8

X:12
T:Sweet nightingale - stevens
C:Sent me by E.F. Stevens of Terrace, St Ives, as the air to which sung by the miners in Cornwall, 1850.
F:http://www.vwml.org/record/SBG/1/1/91
Z:Original Sibleius Transcription by Martin and Shan Graebe
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:G
D2 | G2 G2 D2 | G4 Ac | B2 B2 A2 | B4 GB | d2 d2 B2 |c2 B2 A2 | G6 | z4Bc | d2 d2 B2 |
c4 Bc | d2 G2 A2 | (D2 E2) F2 | G2 A2 B2 |c2 d2 e2 | (d2>c2 B2) |
 (c2>B2 A2) | (B2>A2 G2) |A4 D2 | G2 B2 d2 | c2 B2 A2 | G4 z2||
T:Sweet nightingale - whitfeld
T:From H. Whitfeld, Brush-maker, Market Alley Plymouth, 
T:as sung by his mother a century ago when a girl.
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:G
D2 | G2 G2 BA | G4 GA | B2 B2 A2 | B4 GB | d2 d2 c2 |B2 G2 cB | A6 | z4Bc |
 d2 B2 d2 |!fermata!c2 AB c | d2 G2 AF | D2 E2 F2 | G2 A2 B2 |c2 d2 e2 | (d2>c2 B2) | (c2>B2 A2) |
( B2>A2 G2 |d4 )Bc | d2 B2 d2 | c2>B2 A2 | G4z2 |"Chorus"Bc| d2 B2  d2 | c2>B2  A2 | G4 z2||
T:Sweet nightingale - dr arne
T:Dr. Arne’s melody 1761, “Thomas & Sally”.
M:3/8
L:1/8
K:Eb
B | e2 G/E/ | B2 G | cFG | A2 G |e>dc | dG=B | c2 G | e2 d |c>d B | 
cF=A | B2z | z2B |e2 B_d | c2  c | fce | dB/B/ |e>fg | fed | !fermata!e2z |

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