A nice emigration song is the Stewart Ross version of 'Dark Island' - a clip of Calum Kennedy's 1967 recording using my father's lyrics with a bit of video can currently be found on UK's 'You Tube'. He sang one wrong word 'In the years long ago', should have been 'In the years long gone by'...

There are better folk arrangements of this lyrical version song - and the English studio orchestration by PYE records is a bit twee by today's standards.

Amazingly, this song was supposed to be banned for copyright reasons - tell that to the BBC, You Tube and all the record companies who have been re-issuing it!