---
title: "Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary?"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1786"
tune: "Will ye go to the Ewe-Bughts, Marion"
location: "Mossgiel"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/will-ye-go-to-the-indies-my-mary/"
---

# Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary?

## Song
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary,  
And leave auld Scotia’s shore?  
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary,  
Across th’ Atlantic roar?

O sweet grows the lime and the orange,  
And the apple on the pine;  
But a’ the charms o’ the Indies  
Can never equal thine.

I hae sworn by the Heavens to my Mary,  
I hae sworn by the Heavens to be true;  
And sae may the Heavens forget me,  
When I forget my vow!

O plight me your faith, my Mary,  
And plight me your lily-white hand;  
O plight me your faith, my Mary,  
Before I leave Scotia’s strand.

We hae plighted our troth, my Mary,  
In mutual affection to join;  
And curst be the cause that shall part us!  
The hour and the moment o’ time!

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/will-ye-go-to-the-indies-my-mary/