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the Old Blind Bard

Found in Old_Blind_Bard-G-16-4.abc from the John Chambers' music books abc collection
the Old Blind Bard - staff notation
X: 266
T: the Old Blind Bard
R: air, reel
%S: s:4 b:16(4+4+4+4)
B: O'Neill's 1850 #266
O: J.O'Neill
Z: 1997 by John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu>
Q: "Brilliant"
N: Typo: The note values are obviously wrong in bar 6; (b2a2) should be (ba).  [Fixed.]
M: 2/4
L: 1/16
K:Em
(BA) \
| (GABc) .d2(cd) | (edcd) .B2(ba) | {a}g2(fe) B2^d2 | e6 (BA) |
| (GABc) .d2(cd) | (edcd) .B2(ba) |   (gfed)  B2^d2 | e6 |]
|| b2 \
| b3a .g2(fg) | (agfe) .d2(ef) | .g2(fg) (ef)(ga) | b2B2 .B2(BA) |
| (GABc) .d2(cd) | (edcd) .B2(ba) |   (gfed)  B2^d2 | e6 |]

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