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Silly old Man

Found in 104_Silly_old_Man.abc from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
Silly old Man - staff notation
X: 104
T: Silly old Man
T: Longways for as many as will.
%R: jig
B: Daniel Wright "Wright's Compleat Collection of Celebrated Country Dances" 1740 p.52
S: http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/dancebooks.cgi
Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: Repeats added to match the dance's phrasing.  Note the 6-bar phrases.
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: F
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C/D/ |\
F2F (Ff)d | cAF G2F | (GA)c d2g |\
FAF fed | cAF GAc | AGF D2 :|
|: f |\
fcf f>gf | e>dc dcd | f>ga/b/ g2f |\
f>ga gaf | e>dc def | cAF G2 :|
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