Title On the Green Sedgy Banks (t) 
Short Title Edinburgh MM-1, 1792 
Page 308-310 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO 
Incipit  //1213/5567//1+71+2+/1+765//1+2+1+7/671+5 
First Line On the green sedgy banks of the sweet winding tay (fl) 
Burden Text What we wish to be true, love bids us believe (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  151116 
Intervals  2,-2,3,3,2,2,2,-2,2,2,-2,-2,-2,-2,4,2,-2,-2,-2,2,2,-4, 
Key Signature FU#,C#,GU#,D# 
Time Signature
Do
Date 1792 
Number E2.128 
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