with the crows

expression, to do things as if on a crow’s schedule, especially wake up with the crows: get up early in the morning; go to bed with the crows: go to bed early

“They were work people. And let’s face it, they worked their butt off from daylight ’til dark. And everybody said, ‘Well, they went to bed with the crows’. Well, no damn wonder, because if you got up with the crows…”