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|f_aka=If the Heart of a Man, Lancers Quadrilles Third Figure, Poor Robin's Maggot, Would You Have a Young Virgin, Would You Have a Young Virgin of Fifteen Years
|f_country=England
|f_genre=English
|f_rhythm=Jig/Quadrille
|f_time_signature=6/8
|f_key=D
|f_accidental=2 sharps
|f_mode=Ionian (Major)
|f_structure=AB
|f_book_title=George H. Watson music manuscript collection
|f_collector=George H. Watson
|f_year=c. 1890
|f_page=No. 6
|f_theme_code_index=551H5 552H5
|f_score=1
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T:Country Dance. GHW.006
T:If The Life Of A Man,aka. GHW.006
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L:1/8
Q:3/8=120
B:George H.Watson,MS,Swanton Abbott,Norfolk,c1890
R:.Jig
A:England; Norfolk
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N:of 6th. bar of B. DC at end of B
Z:Village Music Project, Taz Tarry, 2000
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