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Barely perceptable tartan pattern is woven from two shades of black, and is known as the "Dark Island" tartan. 

Following on in the style of the Flower of Scotland, Dark Island is also the name of a song.

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The Dark Island
The tune was titled 'Dark Island' for a 1963 TV production of the same name. Both David Silver and Stewart Ross wrote different lyrics at almost exactly the same time to the same tune. The words by David Silver and the tune by Ian MacLaughlan is the one you are most likely to hear these days. The BBC film "The Dark Island" was filmed mainly in South Uist, but the name refers to Benbecula, between the North and South Uists in theOuter Hebrides. 

Here is a midi version of one version of the song.

The Dark Island (C) 1963 Words by David Silver

Away to the west's where I'm longing to be,
Where the beauties of heaven unfold by the sea,
Where the sweet purple heather blooms fragrant and free,
On a hilltop high above the Dark Island.

Chorus
Oh, isle of my childhood, I'm dreaming of thee,
As the steamer leaves Oban and passes Tiree,
Soon I'll capture the magic that lingers for me,
When I'm back once more upon the Dark Island.

So gentle the sea breeze that ripples the bay,
Where the stream joins the ocean, and young children play;
On the strand of pure silver, I'll welcome each day,
And I'll roam for ever more the Dark Island.

Chorus

True gem of the Hebrides, bathed in the light
Of the midsummer dawning that follows the night
How I yearn for the cries of the seagulls in flight.
As they circle high above the Dark Island

Chorus

The Dark Island (C) 1963 words by Stewart Ross:

In the years long gone by when I first left my home,

I was young and Iswanted the wide world to roam

But now I am older and wiser you see,

For that lovely dark island is calling to me.

Though I've wandered away from the land of my birth

And been roaming around to the ends of the earth,

Still my heart is at home in a land far away,
That lovely dark island where memories stray.

middle verse usually cut out.

With a sorrowfull heart I look back through the years,
When I think of that island my eyes fill with tears;
Once again then I long for the land I adore,
That lovely dark island I yearn for once more.

Though I've...

One day I'll return to that far distant shore,
And from that Dark Island I'll wander no more,
Till the day that I die I shall no longer roam,
For that lovely dark island will be my last home.

Though I've wandered away from the land of my birth

And been roaming around to the ends of the earth,

Still my heart is at home in a land far away,
That lovely dark island where memories stray.