Cry Is "All Up," The

DESCRIPTION: "The cry is 'All up! Let us haste away!' And like hearty good fellows we'll row through the bay. Haul up, my young men, Pull away, my old blades, For the county gives bounty For the pilchard trades." Girls cause conflict between husbands and wives
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1906 (Baring-Gould, A Book of Cornwall)
KEYWORDS: fishing husband wife courting fight
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
ADDITIONAL: Sabine Baring-Gould, _A Book of Cornwall_, 1906 (available on Google Books), p. 317, "(The cry is 'All up! Let us haste away!')" (1 text)
Tony Deane and Tony Shaw _The Folklore of Cornwall_, B. T. Batsford, 1975, p. 79, "(The cry is 'All up! Let us haste away!')" (1 text)
File: DeSh079

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