"A Sailor and a Soldier (were walking one day)", also known as "A Soldier and a Sailor" is an Irish and American air in 3/4 time and A Major. This a close lyric variant of "The Topman and the Afterguard" which can be sung to either this tune or "Pleasant and Delightful". The melody appears in George Petrie's Music of Ireland (Dublin, 1882) with four related tunes collected by Patrick Weston Joyce, who referred to them in his Ancient Irish Music. It was printed in Stanford's The Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Tunes (1905). It is in the Roud Folk Song Index as #350. It was recorded by Mike Seeger on Early Southern Banjo Styles. Mike learned it from Nancy Jones, a singer in North Carolina. Harry Cox of Catfield, Norfolk, sang "The Soldier and Sailor's Prayer" to Peter Kennedy in October 1953. This recording was included in 2000 on Kennedy's album What Will Become of England?. This version is from Stanford.