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Thread #164388   Message #4234330
Posted By: Lighter
14-Jan-26 - 12:38 PM
Thread Name: H M Belden. Ballads and Songs-Unfortunate Rake
Subject: RE: H M Belden. Ballads and Songs-Unfortunate Rake
Petrie's Irish tune for "As a sailor and a soldier were walking one day" is something of a transitional form, at least to my ear:

https://tinyurl.com/2pkb7nj6

It was published in 1855, but Petrie's source (P. W. Joyce, b. 1827) had learned it "many years since," presumably in his childhood.