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Title:Here's his health in water
Tune:``8F/C`AF6AbB/``8CC8.C6F/   (Plaine and Easie code)
 notation
Plaine and Easie code beginning on C: ``8C/`GEC6EF/8GG8.G``6C/

 
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Key signature:bB
Time Signature:2/4
Length (no. of bars):20
Verses and lines:1 x 8 S+R
Bibliographic references: Johnson, J. Scots MM, V, p.494, no.480 [1796]
Smith, R A. Scotish Minstrel, VI, p.30 [1824]
Related names: Johnson, James, ca.1750-1811.
Smith, Robert Archibald, 1780-1829.
Versions: Song title:   Here's his health in water
First words:   Altho' my back be at the wa'
References:   Johnson, J. Scots MM, V, p.494, no.480 [1796] ; Smith, R A. Scotish Minstrel, VI, p.30 [1824] ;

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