The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom; (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 129
old hands up at the third line,and the other two children run under the hands of the firsttwo. There is no pause, but the verse is sung time after time,so that the four children are nearly always moving. In theother Hampshire version four girls stand in a square, eachholding the hands of the one… … FiR.3 ri6.4. their arms encircle each others waists and they dance round.In the Scottish version there are only two girls who join handsand pull each other backwards and forwards, repeating thewords. Halliwell describes a different action to any of these.A string of children, hand in hand, stand in…
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