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B474- 'Twas When the Sheep Were Shearing

B475- The Two Entire Lovers

B476- Under and Over

B477- Under the Greenwood Tree

B478- Under the Greenwood Tree

B479- Up Tails All

B480- Up with Aley, Aley

B481- Up with Aley, Aley

B482- Upon a Summer's Day

B483- Upon St. David's Day

B484- The Usurer's Daughter

B485- Valiant Jockey's Marched Away

B486- The Vicar and Moses

B487- The Vicar of Bray (Tune= O Bessy Bell and Mary Gray)

B488- The Vicar of Bray (Tune = Country Garden)

B489- Vive le Roi

B490- Walking in a Country Town

B491- Walsingham

B492- The Wanton Wife

B493- The Waterman's Dance

B494- Watkin's Ale

B495- We All to Conquering Beauty Bow

B496- Welladay [defective 13th meas]

B497- Wert Thou More Fairer Than Thou Art

B498- Wert Thou More Fairer Than Thou Art

B499- Wert Thou More Fairer Than Thou Art

B500- Wert thou more fairer than thou art (4th/4)

B501- What if a Day

B502- What Shall I Do to Show How Much I Love Her

B503- When Aurelia First I Courted

B504- When Cannon are Roaring

B505- When First Amintas Sued for a Kiss

B506- When First the Scottish Wars Began

B507- When I Have Often Heard Young Maids Complaining

B508- When Love with Unconfined Wings

B509- When Maids Live to Thirty

B510- When My Kid and Lambs I Treated

B511A- When the King Enjoys His Own Again

B512- When the Stormy Winds do Blow

B513- Where's My Shepherd?

B514- While I Gaze on Chloris Trembling

B515- While I Gaze on Chloris Trembling

B516- Who List to Lead a Soldeir's Life

B517- Who Liveth So Merry in All This Land

B518- Who's the Fool Now, or Martin Said to His Man

B519- Whoop! Do Me No Harm, Good Man

B520- Why Are My Eyes Still Flowing?

B521- Wigmore's Galliard

B522- William and Margaret

B523- William and Margaret

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Transcriber: D'Urfey

Musical Genre: Traditional / MIT Primary Core

Region: SOL Solar System

Type: Celtic Dance

Modality: G

Beat Division: 6/4

Book Source: None

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B474- 'Twas When the Sheep Were Shearing

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