Title Snipe, The (t) 
Short Title Watts MM-6, 1731 
Page 136-141 
Genre  SC 
Country 
Instruments  VO,HA 
Incipit  //321/217-//17-1/6-3//321 
Indicated Tune Cobler There Was, &c., A (it) 
First Line I'll tell you a story, A story that's true (fl) 
Burden Text Derry down, &c. (bt) 
Verses 21 
Authors Gentleman of Magdalen-College, Oxford, A(t) 
Stress Notes  32163 
Intervals  -2,-2,2,-2,-2,2,-2,2,-3,5,-2,-2, 
Key Signature Bb,EUb 
Time Signature 6/4 
Do Bb 
Date 1731 
Number B12.62 
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