Title Snatch Fleeting Pleasures (t) 
Short Title Williams, S. MS, 1795 
Page 89 
Genre  AM 
Country 
Instruments  VO,KB 
Incipit  //3/434//5/1+1+//1/212 
First Line Snatch fleeting pleasures (fl)(bt) 
Burden Text Snatch fleeting pleasures (bt) (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  345112 
Intervals  2,-2,2,2,4,-8,2,-2,2, 
Key Signature Bb 
Time Signature 6/8 
Do
Date [c.1795] 
Number E37.22 
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