5, count 'em, 5 gold rings

We are stumped here.  In the poem/song the music stops and Five Golden Rings...comes out slowly and clearly.  We looked everywhere for what it meant, from the biblical to the "five marks on the door" and nothing seemed to fit that made any sense. 

The one we like best is probably the germ of it...5 ringed neck pheasants...it fits the bird stuff in the rest of it...

We are clever but we may not be right.