The Bonny Ship the Diamond

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



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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



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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



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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"



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