The Traditional Children's Games of England Scotland
& Ireland In Dictionary Form - Volume 1

With Tunes(sheet music), Singing-rhymes(lyrics), Methods Of Playing with diagrams and illustrations.

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	376	MILKING PAILS
	Jamieson gives the game as a ring within which one goes round with a handkerchief, with which a stroke is given in succession to every one in the ring; the person who strikes, or the taker, still repeating this rhyme :— Here I gae round the jingie ring, The jingie ring, the jingie ring, Here I gae round the jingie ring, And through my merry-ma-tanzie. Then the handkerchief is thrown at one in the ring, who is obliged to take it up and go through the same process. He also mentions another account of the game which had been sent him, which describes the game as played in a similar manner to the versions given by Chambers. Stewart, in his Ben Nevis and Glencoe, p. 361, records the following rhyme:— Here we go with merry shout, Up and down and round about, And dance a merry-ma-tandy, but he does not describe the game in detail.
	Milking Pails
	I. Mary's gone a-milking, Mother, mother, Mary's gone a-milking, Gentle sweet mother o' mine.