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Thread #13906   Message #116925
Posted By: Joe Offer
23-Sep-99 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: camp version of 'Road to the Isles'
Subject: Road to the Isles
The version Kendall provided is very similar to the version of ROAD TO THE ISLES that's in the database, with a couple of interesting variations.
I notice that the song is copyrighted. Rise Up Singing says "Road to the Isles" has words by Kenneth MacLeod and music by Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser and Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser, from a book by Marjorie Kennedy Fraser called Songs of the Hebrides with the 1917 copyright renewed in 1944 by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. The database makes things clearer by saying the song was collected and translated by Kennedy-Fraser and MacLeod. I guess this is thread creep, but does that 1917 copyright mean the song is now in the public domain? Are there earlier versions of the song and tune?
-Joe Offer-

By the way, Rise Up Singing says the source of the camp version is unknown, but it may be from U.S. Scouts. The canoe base didn't attribute the song to anyone, either.