Mudcat Café message #44084

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Thread #7323 Message #44084
Posted By: John in Brisbane
03-Nov-98 - 07:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Add: The Dark Isle
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: THE DARK ISLE

Have been aware of this Scottish classic tune for some time, but was recently blown away by its power when performing it with a total of about 600 musicians (massed bands, pipes and choir including Royal Marines and Russian Army). But I had never realised that it had words. I can picture it being it being sung quietly in front of a fire with a drap of the doings.

Regards
John
THE DARK ISLE

As mists of the evening creep over the hill
And the sea round about her is silent and still
Forbidden dark island so dreary and cold
What mysterious tales can your black rocks unfold
While fishermen row past your dark ocean shore
And old wives are spinning and praying once more
No falsehood to dread no malice you hold
You are sworn to your secrets of stories untold
The old men will tell not a bird or a nest
At times not a seabird will stop there to rest
But you lie there in mist and cold watery waves
No harm is yet spoken no evil you show
Tis sacred you stand to folks long ago
No curses come from you or to you are shown
Just a lonely dark island a mysterious throne

But tho' they've not seen they'll tell what they know
Of kings and of princes who died long ago
Who rest in your coves and still to this day
They are seen in your shadows and thru the sea spray
So toast to yon mountains and summits of blue
And here's to the glens and the meadows of dew
It's not of these hills or valleys I dream
But the lonely dark island the home of the kings

Tune sequenced by Barry Taylor. Thank you.

MIDI file: darkisle.mid
Timebase: 384
TimeSig: 3/4 96 8
Tempo: 081 (740740 microsec/crotchet)
Tempo: 075 (800000 microsec/crotchet)
Tempo: 120 (500000 microsec/crotchet)
Tempo: 081 (740740 microsec/crotchet)
Tempo: 075 (800000 microsec/crotchet)
Name: The Dark Isle
Key: C
Start
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ABC format:
X:1
T:The Dark Isle
M:3/4
Q:1/4=75
K:C
G11/2A/2|A/2d7/2A3/2d/2|c4d3/2c/2|A4G/2F3/2|
G4c3/2d/2|e4d/2c3/2|e/2g7/2G2|e4g3/2e/2|d4G3/2A/2|
A/2d7/2A3/2d/2|c4d3/2c/2|A4G/2F3/2|G4c3/2d/2|
e7/2G/2g3/2e/2|d7/2G/2e3/2d/2|c6|c4e3/2f/2|
g4G/2G3/2|e4d/2c3/2|A/2F7/2A2|G4c3/2d/2|e4d/2c3/2|
e/2g7/2G2|e4g3/2e/2|d4e3/2f/2|g4G/2G3/2|e4d/2c3/2|
A/2F7/2A2|G4c3/2d/2|e7/2G/2g3/2e/2|d7/2G/2e3/2d/2|
c6|c6|A/2d7/2A3/2d/2|c4d3/2c/2|A4G/2F3/2|
G4c3/2d/2|e4d/2c3/2|e/2g7/2G2|e4g3/2e/2|d4G3/2A/2|
A/2d7/2A3/2d/2|c4d3/2c/2|A4G/2F3/2|G4c3/2d/2|
e7/2G/2g3/2e/2|d7/2G/2e3/2d/2|c6|c4e3/2f/2|
g4G/2G3/2|e4d/2c3/2|A/2F7/2A2|G4c3/2d/2|e4d/2c3/2|
e/2g7/2G2|e4g3/2e/2|d4e3/2f/2|g4G/2G3/2|e4d/2c3/2|
A/2F7/2A2|G4c3/2d/2|e7/2G/2g3/2e/2|d7/2G/2e3/2d/2|
c6|c4G3/2A/2|A/2d7/2A3/2d/2|c4d3/2c/2|A4G/2F3/2|
G4c3/2d/2|e4d/2c3/2|e/2g7/2G2|e4g3/2e/2|d4G3/2A/2|
A/2d7/2A3/2d/2|c4d3/2c/2|A4G/2F3/2|G4c3/2d/2|
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e/2g7/2G2|e4g3/2e/2|d4e3/2f/2|g4G/2G3/2|e4d/2c3/2|
A/2F7/2A2|G4c3/2d/2|e7/2G/2g3/2e/2|d7/2G/2e3/2d/2|
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