Title Roast Beef of Old England, The-4 (t) 
Short Title SS, Folger-C52 
Page 34-35 
Genre  SS 
Country 
Instruments  MI,VO,KB 
Incipit  //13/56//5323/11+7//61+2+ 
First Line How hard O Sawney is thy lot (fl) 
First Line-Recitative Upon the ground hard by poor Sawney sat (fl-r) 
Burden Text O the beef, The bonny, bonny beef (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  15516 
Intervals  3,3,2,-2,-3,-2,2,-3,8,-2,-2,3,2, 
Key Signature FU#,C# 
Time Signature
Do
Number G3.25.4 
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Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: Source Data
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