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The Dowdy

Found in 1813_Button_Whitaker.abc from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
The Dowdy - staff notation
X: 18
T: The Dowdy
%R: jig
B: "Twenty Four Country Dances with Figures for the Year 1813", Button & Whitaker, p.9 #2
F: http://www.vwml.org/browse/browse-collections-dance-tune-books/browse-button1813
Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: The Figures by Mr WILSON.
N: The rhythms aren't quite right at the strain boundaries.
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Bb
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B/c/ |\
ded fdB | GAB F2F | Bcd cAF | Bcd c2c |\
dcd fdB | GAB F2f | fdB gec | BcA B2 :|
|: F/E/ |\
DFB EGB | DFB dcB | fdb geb | fdB c2F/E/ |\
DFB EGB | DFB dcB | fdb gec | BcA B2 :|
|:\
b2a gdB | b2a gdB | G2A B2c | d2e dBG |\
b2a gdB | b2a gdB | G2A B2c | D=E^F G3 :|
|:\
=e2e ede | f2g a2z | ^f2f f=ef | g2a b2z |\
g2b f2b | _e2b fdB | G2g fdB | G2A B3 :|
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