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The Comical Fellow

Found in 1776_Thompson.abc from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
The Comical Fellow - staff notation
X: 91
T: The Comical Fellow
%R: jig
B: Chas & Sam Thompson "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1776", London 1776, p.46 #1
F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-thompsons1776#
Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> (added dance description)
N: The 2nd strain has final repeat but no initial repeat; not fixed.
N: There are 2 small smudges after bar 4's end-repeat that may be a repeat ':', possibly pencilled in by someone.
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: D
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A |\
d2f e2A | B2d c2F | GFG EAG | FDD D2 :|\
A |\
d2d d2d | =cBA BGB | e2e e2e | dcB cAd |
fef def | gfg efg | agf agf | eee e2a |\
aaa a2a | aaa a2a | afd Bec | ddd d2 :|
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