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The Bonny Ship, The Diamond
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Album: Where the Dolphins Do Play
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Traditional
The Diamond was a ship added to the Aberdeen whaling fleet in 1812. It went on yearly voyages until 1819, when it was lost in the ice. It is thought that this song was originally written in 1812.
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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;
When Captain Thompson gives the order 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-searching for the whale.
Along the quay at Peterhead, the lasses stand aroon,
Wi' their shawls all pulled about 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.
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 jacket o' the white and the trouser o' the blue,
When we return to Peterhead, they'll hae sweethearts anoo,
It will 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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