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The Dark Island (song)

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Category:1962 songs

An instrumental and song. First known as 'Dr. Mackay's Farewell to Creagorry, and also Dr. Mcinnes's Farewell to South Uist composed by Iain Maclachlan of Benbecula about 1958. The instrumental was later known as 'Dark Island' after the BBC 1962 TV series of the same name starring Robert Hardy. In 1963, Words were set to an altered version of the instrumental by Stewart Ross of Inverness, who thought the tune was traditional, due to confusion over its origins... "In the years long gone by when I first left my home... lovely dark island where memories stray". These words were issued in sheet music and later recorded by Calum and Fiona Kennedy and in 2018 by Daniel O' Donnell.

A more familiar set of lyrics were written to the tune by David Silver of Glasgow also in 1963... "away to the westward I'm longing to be... when I'm back once more upon the Dark Island"..

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