And three for Him who made us all.
Up with the kettle and down with the pan
Give us { an answer } and we’ll be gone.[55]
{ our souling }
[54] Mr. Fuller-Maitland gives this as the tune in English County Songs, p. 30. This is a mistake: he only has the “refrain.”
[55] There is always an “up” and “down” in all the versions met with, but, as pointed out in Shropshire Folk-Lore, the original no doubt was:—
“Up with the ladder and down with the can,”
i.e. the ladder is to be raised to the apple-loft and the can taken down in the cellar for ale or cider.
The following Staffordshire version is valuable for the statement that they “have all been praying for the soul departed.”
“Soul day, soul day,