Bonny Ship the Diamond
The Bonny Ship the Diamond Traditional
One verse
and chorus
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The Bonny Ship the
Diamond is performed by Ian
O'Donnell

The Diamond is a ship, my lads, for the Davis
Strait she's bound,
And the quay it is all garnished with bonny lasses
'round;
Captain Thompson gives the order to sail the ocean
wide,
Where the sun it never sets, my lads, no darkness
dims the sky,
chorus:
So it's cheer up my lads, let your hearts never fail,
While the bonny ship, the Diamond, goes a-fishing for
the whale.
Along the quay at Peterhead, the lasses stand
aroon,
Wi' their shawls all pulled around them and the saut
tears runnin' doon;
Don't you weep, my bonny lass, though you be left
behind,
For the rose will grow on Greenland's ice before we
change our mind.
Chorus
Here's a health to the Resolution, likewise the
Eliza Swan,
Here's a health to the Battler of Montrose and the
Diamond, ship of fame;
We wear the trouser o' the white and the jackets o'
the blue,
When we return to Peterhead, we'll hae sweethearts
anoo,
Chorus
It'll be bricht both day and nicht when the
Greenland lads come hame,
Wi' a ship that's fu' of oil, my lads, and money to
our name;
We'll make the cradles for to rock and the blankets
for to tear,
And every lass in Peterhead sing "Hushabye, my
dear"
Chorus