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|f_annotation='''WILL YE GO TO THE EW-BUGHTS MARION?''' AKA - "[[Ew-bughts Marion (The)]]," "[[Go to the Ew-bughts, Marion]]." Scottish, English; Air (2/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Will ye go to the Ew-Bughts, Marrion?" is a song from the writer and cleric Thomas Percy (1729–1811), published in his '''Reliques of Ancient English Poetry''' (1791). While visiting a friend Percy noticed a neglected folio whose pages were being used by the maids to light the fire. He rescued them for examination, and found the song on one of them. ''Ew-bught'' is a Scots word for sheep-pens or the place where the ewes are milked. The first stanza goes of Percy's dialect version goes:
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''Will ze gae to the ew-bughts, Marion,''<br> 
''And wear in the sheip wi' mee?''<br> 
''The sun shines sweit, my Marion,''<br> 
''But nae half sae sweit as thee.''<br> 
''O Marion's a bonnie lass, ''<br>
''And the blyth blinks in her ee;''<br> 
''And fain wad I marrie Marion,''<br>
''Gin Marion wad marrie mee.''<br> 
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The song was hardly unknown, however, for it had been printed a few years earlier in the first volume of Johnson's '''Scots Musical Museum''' (1787), where it was considered an old song (Percy also noted its antiquity). The '''Museum''' version begins:
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'''Will ye go to the ew-bughts, Marion,''<br>
''and wear in the sheep wi' me;''<br>
''the sun shines sweet, my Marion,''<br>
''but nae half sae sweet as thee,''<br>
''the sun shines sweet, my Marion.''<br>
''but nae half as sweet as thee.''<br>
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O Marion’s a bonny lass,''<br  />
⁠And the blythe blinks in her eye;''<br  />
And fain wad I marry Marion,''<br  />
⁠Gin Marion wad marry me.''<br  />
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I’ve nine milk ewes my Marion;''<br  />
⁠A cow and a brawny quey,''<br  />
I’ll gie them a’ to my Marion,''<br  />
⁠Just on her bridle day;''<br  />
</blockquote>
The earliest version of the song was printed in London by poet Allan Ramsay in his '''Tea-Table Miscellany''' (1733, p. 88) and by William Thomson in '''Orpheus Caledoneus, 2nd Edition, vol 2''' (1733, No. 15). Ramsay's version ("Ew-bughts Marion") begins:
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''Will ye go to the ew-bughts, Marion,''<br>
''And wear in the sheep wi' me;''<br>
''The sun shines sweet, my Marion,''<br>
''But nae haff sae sweet as thee.''<br>
''O Marion's a bonny lass,''<br>
''And the blyth blinks in her eye;''<br>
''And fain wad I marry Marion,''<br>
''Gin Marion wad marry me.''<br>
</blockquote>
See note for "[[annotation:Sligo Tune|Sligo Tune]]."
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|f_printed_sources= Aird ('''Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3'''), 1788; No. 476, p. 184. Johnson ('''Scots Musical Museum, Volume I'''), 1787; Song 85, p. 86.  Phorson & Brown ('''The Union Song Book and Vocal Miscellany'''), Berwick, 1781; p. 26.  William Thomson ('''Orpheus Caledonius, vol. 2'''), 1733; No. 15, p. 53.
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