Up, up! ye dames, and lasses gay!
To the meadows trip away.
'Tis you must tend the flocks this morn,
And scare the small birds from the corn.
 Not a soul at home may stay:
   For the shepherds must go
   With lance and bow
 To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.
Leave the hearth and leave the house
To the cricket and the mouse:
Find grannam out a sunny seat.
With babe and lambkin at her feet.
 Not a soul at home may stay:
   For the shepherds must go
   With lance and bow
 To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.