A plague in all your households. Well, not quite (and I seem not to have
received most of the posts for this topic) but the next best thing
http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_dark.htm
Anyone brave enough to listen to the mp3.
Actually, I quite like it.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gibbons, John" <j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk>
To: "NSP group" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 5:06 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: The Dark Island
Maybe a more topical one 'The Duck Island'?
-----Original Message-----
From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf
Of Anthony Robb
Sent: 11 April 2010 23:27
To: Dartmouth NPS
Subject: [NSP] The Dark Island
Bill Telfer wrote:
Aye I've heard Ian Maclaughlan play it years ago at Auchtermuchty
Festival
(on the platform in the town market place) - a very nice a TMSA
festival
where people take over the square for dancing) and he announced it as
The
Dark Island. As often happens somebody has even given the tune words
but as
far as I remember they're probably better forgotten!
Hello Bill
This must have been post 1963. The old name only lasted five years
(1958-1963).
The power of television!!!
It seems to have been a popular target for dodgy words over the years.
Anthony
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