Title Jack at the Windlass (t) 
Short Title American SS-SM 
Page 1-2 
Genre  AI 
Country 
Instruments  VO,KB+FL 
Incipit  //1+2+1+/1+3+1+//75/55//646/1+64//5 
First Line Come all hands ahoy to the anchor (fl) 
Burden Text With a will ho then pull away jolly boys (bt) 
Verses
Authors Dibdin (M) (T) 
Stress Notes  1175615 
Intervals  2,-2,3,-3,-2,-3,2,-3,3,3,-3,-3,2, 
Key Signature Bb,EUb 
Time Signature 6/8 
Do Bb 
Place Philadelphia 
Publisher Carr & Co. 
Location X.LSL,Facs(E25392) 
Number B27.12 
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Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: Source Data
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