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)," "Go to the Ew-bughts, Marion." 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. Ew-bught is a Scots word for sheep-pens or the place where the ewes are milked. 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. Johnson (Scots Musical Museum, Volume I) ; Song 85, p. 86.

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