This version of the Dark Island uses the lyrics of Inverness songwriter Stewart Ross (1929-1993). The more famous words were written by David Silver, and are a completely different work. Calum Kennedy's version was first recorded on an LP for Pye records Scottish Working Man in 1967. Later Calum's daughter Fiona and brother-in law Alasdair Gillies, recorded the Stewart Ross lyrical version. Stewart Ross wrote this lyric in 1962 when the BBC TV

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