ADD: Island of my Desire

Subject: LYR REQ: Island of My Desire
From: GUEST,JR
Date: 31 Mar 12 - 06:37 PM

I've been looking for a copy of the song "Island of My Desire"; can't find it anywhere -- not even a version on YouTube.

Could anyone tell me where I could find the sheet music or a recording? Or the title of the elementary school songbook that contains it?

Many thanks!

Subject: LYR REQ: Island of My Desire
From: Paul Burke
Date: 31 Mar 12 - 07:39 PM

"Oh, island of my desire, in memory you'll live for me. You'll shine like a beacon fire, in the far off Western sea." ~???

Subject: LYR REQ: Island of My Desire
From: GUEST,JR
Date: 05 Apr 12 - 06:04 PM

To Paul Burke,

Yes! Do you know it? Know where I can find it?

Subject: RE: Island of My Desire
From: GUEST,statOR
Date: 05 Oct 18 - 10:53 PM

To Guest Jr: I know all the words to Island of My Desire, from my days at Camp Yakewi as a Campfire Girl. However, like you, I have not found ANY documentation of the song/melody ANYWHERE! Did you ever find it?

Subject: ADD: Island of my Desire
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Apr 21 - 09:51 PM

ISLAND OF MY DESIRE

Oh island of my desire,
in memory you live for me.
You shine like a beacon fire
in a far off western sea.

I know where the coral gleams,
I know where the amber glows.
I know where the sun goes down
in a sea of blue and rose.

I think of the days gone by,
the melody of wind and rain.
I think of the starry nights
that may never come again.

Oh island of my desire
in memory you live for me.
You shine like a beacon fire
in the far off Western sea.

Subject: RE: ADD: Island of my Desire
From: GUEST,Kimberley Linder’s gmail.com
Date: 05 Jul 21 - 10:30 PM

You nailed it! I love this song. I sang it 50 years ago at Bluebird camp, then again again at YMCA canoe camp. It works for every blessed lake sunset, in any country or state.It’s a Native South Pacific Islander song which pulls at everyone’s heartstrings. We all long fir home.. Thank you,

Subject: RE: ADD: Land of Heart's Desire
From: Felipa
Date: 07 Jul 21 - 04:47 PM

This song seems similar to me

LAND O' HEART'S DESIRE
Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser


Land o' Heart's Desire,
Isle of Youth,
Dear Western Isle,
Gleaming in sunlight!
Land o' Heart's Desire
Isle of Youth!

Far the cloudless sky
Stretchs blue
Across the Isle,
Green in sunlight,
Far the cloudless sky
Stretches blue.

There shall thou and I
Wander free,
On sheen-white sands,
Dreaming in starlight,
Land o' Heart's Desire
Isle of Youth.

I knew the title of this song, and did a search for the lyrics, which I quickly found at http://www.alansim.com/scohtml/sco154.html That page says that this song is set to a traditional melody from North Uist.

Sung by Calum Kennedy

sung by Kenneth McKellar