The Bonny Ship The Diamond
Traditional:
courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com - A descriptive sea shanty about the Diamond, a ship that sank in 1819 and the episodes and characters who were aboard her
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, nor darkness dims the sky.
CHORUS
So it's cheer up, my lads,
Let your hearts never fail,
For the bonny ship, The Diamond,
goes a-fishing for the whale.
Along the quay at Peterhead, the lasses stand around,
With their shawls all pulled about them and the salt tears running down;
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 health to The Resolution, likewise The Eliza Swan,
Here's health to The Battler of Montrose
and The Diamond, ship of fame;
We wear the trousers of the white
and the jackets of the blue,
When we return to Peterhead we'll ha'e sweethearts enoo.
CHORUS
It'll be bright both day and night
when the Greenland lads come hame,
With a ship that's fu' o' 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
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