Title Low Down In the Broom (t) 
Short Title Scots MM-1, 1787 
Page 91 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO,PF 
Incipit  //5123/51+53//2123/2+3+//1123/1+765 
First Line My daddy is a canker'd carle (fl) 
Burden Text But let them say, or let them do, it's a' ane to me, &c (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  552211 
Intervals  -5,2,2,3,4,-4,-3,-2,-2,2,2,7,2,-10,2,2,6,-2,-2,-2, 
Time Signature
Do
Date 1787 
Number E31.103 
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