Annotation:Will ye go to the Ew-Bughts Marion?

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WILL YE GO TO THE EW-BUGHTS MARION? AKA - "Ew-bughts Marion (The)." Scottish, Air (2/4 time). E Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Will ye go to the Ew-Bughts, Marrion?" is a song by 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. The first stanza goes:

'Will ye go to the ew-bughts, Marion,
and wear in the sheep wi' me;
the sun shines sweet, my Marion,
but nae half sae sweet as thee,
the sun shines sweet, my Marion.
but nae half as sweet as thee.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3), 1788; No. 476, p. 184.

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