Title O! Dear What Can the Matter Be (t) 
Short Title Scots MM-5, 1797 
Page 510 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO,PF 
Incipit  //5/5//531+/531//4 
First Line O! dear what can the matter be (fl) 
Burden Text To tye up my bonny brown hair (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  55554 
Intervals  -3,6,-4,-3,-3,4, 
Key Signature Bb,EUb,Ab 
Time Signature 6/8 
Do Eb 
Date [1797] 
Number E35.96 
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