Title There Was a Silly Shepherd swain (t) 
Short Title Scots MM-5, 1797 
Page 490-491 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO,PF 
Incipit  //561+2+3+/2+1+65//561+2+3+/2+1+//6531+/5323 
First Line There was a silly shepherd swain (fl) 
Verses 14 
Stress Notes  525265 
Intervals  2,3,2,2,-2,-2,-3,-2,2,3,2,2,-2,-2,-3,-2,-3,6,-4,-3,-2,2, 
Time Signature
Do
Date [1797] 
Number E35.79 
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