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The Merry lads of Ayre

Found in 1803_Preston.abc from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
The Merry lads of Ayre - staff notation
X: 490
T: The Merry lads of Ayre
%R: reel
B: "Preston's Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1803", Tho. Preston, ed. p.205 #2
F: http://archive.org/details/Prestons24CountryDancesForTheYear1805
F: http://folkopedia.efdss.org/wiki/File:Preston_24_1803.PDF
Z: 2011,2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
K: C
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g |\
{f}e>dcA cGGg | {f}e>dcA f2 (e/f/g) |\
e>dce (d/c/B/A/) cG | (A/B/c) (GE) D2D :|
|: e |\
c2ga gega | c/c/c g>a {a}g2fe |\
c2(ga) gece | f>g a/g/f/e/ d2d :|
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