"The Trooper and Maid", also known as "The Bugle Britches", "The Bugle Boy", "The Soldier and His Lady" and "The Soldier Travelling From the North" is a narrative ballad known in Western and Southern England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the US. It appears in Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898) as #299. It was printed in Bronson's The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads (1959-1972), Bronson's The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads (1976), Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917), Randolph's Ozark Folksongs (1946-1950), Niles' The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles (1961), Fred and Irwin Silber's Folksinger's Wordbook (1973) and Seeger's Folk Songs of Peggy Seeger (1964). It is in the Roud Folk Song Index as #162. It was recorded by Jean Redpath on Father Adam, Ewan MacColl on Classic Scots Ballads, Theodore Bikel on Folksinger's Choice, Seamus Ennis on As I Roved Out and Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger on The Trooper and the Maid.