Many years have elapsed since the Digi. Trad. database was created and has been circulated.

I don't wish to go into the rigmarole of how my father wrote the lyrics to version 1 of the Dark Island on the database. But, his words don't fit the Midi sample that has been put with it. So it reads rather oddly when you don't have the correct tune version that goes with it.

When he wrote the words - it was to an altered version of the tune. Unlike David Silver's Version 2 - which is a word for note fit and the tune is correct.

   There are a couple of word transcription errors that also spoil the way the lyrics fit.    This is not casting blame at anybody, but is it possible all these years later to have that entry re-done? I have the original '63 printed sheet music of this version and can send them - and the song is on youtube anyway. Or am I a decade too late to bother.   If I am I'll just forget it and let it go!

This is not a discussion of 'Dark Island', the copyright, or its history which has been covered in endless volumes elsewhere.