Title Air 23, Act Iii (t) 
Short Title Beggar's Opera, 1728 
Page T55M15 
Genre  BA 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //671+/765//1+76/535//2/25 
Indicated Tune There Was an Old Woman (it) 
First Line So I drink off this bumper (fl) 
Stress Notes  671522 
Intervals  2,2,-2,-2,-2,4,-2,-2,-2,-3,3,-4,4, 
Key Signature FU#,C# 
Time Signature 6/4 
Do
Date 1728 
Number R32.63 
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