Title Roast Beef of Old England, The. Air 4 (t) 
Short Title SS, Harvard 
Page 1-4 
Genre  SS 
Country 
Instruments  VO/VN/GF,HAF 
Incipit  //13/56//5323/11+5//61+2+/3+2+1+//6 
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, &c. (bt) 
Verses
Stress Notes  1551636 
Intervals  3,3,2,-2,-3,-2,2,-3,8,-4,2,3,2,2,-2,-2,-3, 
Key Signature FU#,C# 
Time Signature
Do
Number B29.963.4 
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