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The Siege of Acre

Found in 1800_Thompson_FCCD-V1.abc from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
The Siege of Acre - staff notation
X: 10
T: The Siege of Acre
%R: march, reel
B: Thompson "A Favourite Collection of Country Dances 1800", p.10
F: https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/1205/2168/120521683.23.pdf
Z: 2019 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: The 2nd strain has initial repeat but no final repeat; fixed to match the D.C. and the dance.
M: 2/4
L: 1/16
K: F
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% Voice 1 formatted for a US-letter/A4 page size.
V: 1
F2 |\
A2F2 B2G2 | c2A2F2f2 | d2B2G2c2 | A3G F2FG |\
A2F2 B2G2 | c2A2 F2f2 | d2B2 G2B2 | F6 H:|
FG |\
A2c2 G2B2 | A2F2G2E2 | F2A2E2G2 | F2D2E2C2 |\
D2F2E2G2 | F2A2G2B2 | A2c2=B2d2 | Tc6 "_D.C."|]
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% Voice 2 preserves the original staff breaks.
V: 2 clef=bass middle=D
z2 |\
FcAc EcGc | FcAc FcAc | DBFB EcGc | FcAc FcAc |\
FcAc EcGc | FcAc FcAc | B,FDF CGEG |
F6 H:| z2 |\
FcAc EcGc | FcAc GcBc | FcAc EcGc | DGFG CGEG |\
B,FDF CGEG | CAFA DBGB | FcAc Gd=Bd | c6 "^D.C."|]
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