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'''SOLDIER AND A SAILOR, A.''' English, Air. The | '''SOLDIER AND A SAILOR, A.''' English, Air and Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody, with instructions for a country dance, was first published in the '''Dancing Master''', 14th edition (1709), and was retained in the long-running dancing master series through the 18th and final edition of 1728 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns). It was also printed by John Walsh in his '''Compleat Country Dancing Master''', editions of 1718, 1731, and 1754, and in Walsh's '''Compleat Country Dancing Master, Volume the Fourth''' (c. 1740). | ||
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The melody of "Soldier and a Sailor" became the vehicle for a number of songs in various ballad operas of the first half of the 18th century. It can be heard in John Gay's '''The Beggar's Opera''' (1729) in the song "A fox may steal your hens, sir; in Edward Phillips' '''The Mock Lawyer''' (1733); '''The State Juggler, or Sir Politick Ribband''' (1733), Scriblerus Secundus' '''The Welsh Opera, or the Grey Mare the Better Horse''' (1731), '''The Wanton Jesuit, or Innocence Seduced''' (1731), '''The Fox Uncas'd, or Robin's Art of Money-Catching''' (1733), and William Goodall's '''False Guardians Outwitted''' (1740). Thomas D'Urfey published the song in his '''Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. III''' (1719-20, p. 220-21) as "A soldier and a sailor, a tinker and a taylor." | |||
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SOLDIER AND A SAILOR, A. English, Air and Country Dance Tune (6/4 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The melody, with instructions for a country dance, was first published in the Dancing Master, 14th edition (1709), and was retained in the long-running dancing master series through the 18th and final edition of 1728 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns). It was also printed by John Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master, editions of 1718, 1731, and 1754, and in Walsh's Compleat Country Dancing Master, Volume the Fourth (c. 1740).
The melody of "Soldier and a Sailor" became the vehicle for a number of songs in various ballad operas of the first half of the 18th century. It can be heard in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1729) in the song "A fox may steal your hens, sir; in Edward Phillips' The Mock Lawyer (1733); The State Juggler, or Sir Politick Ribband (1733), Scriblerus Secundus' The Welsh Opera, or the Grey Mare the Better Horse (1731), The Wanton Jesuit, or Innocence Seduced (1731), The Fox Uncas'd, or Robin's Art of Money-Catching (1733), and William Goodall's False Guardians Outwitted (1740). Thomas D'Urfey published the song in his Pills to Purge Melancholy, vol. III (1719-20, p. 220-21) as "A soldier and a sailor, a tinker and a taylor."