Annotation:As a Sailor and Soldier

AS A SOLDIER AND A SAILOR (WERE WALKING ONE DAY). Irish, Air (3/4 time). A Major. Standard tuning. AB. The melody appears in George Petrie's Music of Ireland (Dublin, 1882) with four related tunes collected by Joyce, who referred to them in his Ancient Irish Music. See also "The Prison of Clonmel" for a related air.

Source for notated version: "From Mr. Joyce" [Stanford/Petrie].

Printed source: Stanford/Petrie (Complete Collection), 1905; No. 771, pg. 193.