Title Snipe. A Ballad, The (t) 
Short Title SS, Folger-C42.4 
Page 455 
Genre  SS 
Country 
Instruments  VO,KB+FL 
Incipit  //343/217-//16-6-/5-5-//6-7-6- 
Indicated Tune Abbot of Canterbury (it) 
First Line I'll tell ye a story, A story yts true (fl) 
Burden Text Derry down (bt) 
Verses 21 
Stress Notes  32156 
Intervals  2,-2,-2,-2,-2,2,-3,-2,2,2,-2, 
Key Signature Bb,EUb 
Time Signature 6/8 
Do Bb 
Publisher Wright Junr., D. 
Number G7.440 
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