Title Despairing Damsel, The (t) 
Short Title Select Songster, 1786 
Page 8-9 
Genre  AI 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //31/35//1+/53//46/5 
First Line 'Twas when the seas were roaring (fl) 
Verses
Stress Notes  331545 
Intervals  -3,3,3,4,-4,-3,2,3,-2, 
Key Signature F#,C# 
Time Signature
Do
Date 1786 
Number B1.2 
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