[ti:The Bonny Ship the Diamond]
[ar:Todd Menton]
[al:Punts]
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[00:00.00]The Bonny Ship the Diamond - Todd Menton
[00:03.67]Oh the Diamond is a ship my boys
[00:05.98]For the Davis Strait we're bound
[00:08.21]The quay it is all garnished
[00:10.09]With bonnie lasses 'round
[00:11.95]Captain Thompson gives the order
[00:14.31]To sail the ocean wide
[00:16.45]Where the sun it never sets my boys
[00:18.45]Nor darkness dims the sky
[00:20.30]And it's cheer up my lads
[00:22.40]Let your hearts never fail
[00:24.80]For the bonnie ship the Diamond
[00:26.66]Goes a-fishng for the whale
[00:31.83]Along the quay at Peterhead
[00:34.19]The lasses stand aroon
[00:36.31]Wi' their shawls all pulled around them
[00:38.30]And the saut tears runnin' doon
[00:40.49]Now don't you weep my bonnie wee lass
[00:42.63]Though you be left behind
[00:44.62]For the rose will grow on Greenland's ice
[00:46.69]Before we change our mind
[00:48.57]And it's cheer up my lads
[00:50.94]Let your hearts never fail
[00:53.06]For the bonnie ship the Diamond
[00:54.89]Goes a-fishting for the whale
[01:04.45]Here's a health to the Resolution
[01:06.44]Likewise the Eliza Swan
[01:08.51]Three cheers for the Battler of Montrose
[01:10.57]And the Diamond ship of fame
[01:12.69]We wear the trousers o' the white
[01:14.89]The jackets o' the blue
[01:16.75]When we will turned Peterhead
[01:18.90]We'll hae sweethearts enou'
[01:20.68]And it's cheer up my lads
[01:22.94]Let your hearts never fail
[01:25.31]For the bonnie ship the Diamond
[01:27.11]Goes a-fishing for the whale
[01:36.52]It will be bright both day and night
[01:38.80]When the Greenland lads come hame
[01:40.93]Our ship full up with oil my boys
[01:43.13]And money to our name
[01:45.14]We'll make the cradles for to rock
[01:47.36]And the blankets for to tear
[01:49.24]And every lass in Peterhead sing
[01:51.58]Hushabye my dear
[01:53.31]And it's cheer up my lads
[01:55.65]Let your hearts never fail
[01:57.82]For the bonnie ship the Diamond
[01:59.58]Goes a-fishing for the whale
[02:02.03]And it's cheer up my lads
[02:03.89]Let your hearts never fail
[02:06.20]For the bonnie ship the Diamond
[02:07.96]Goes a-fishing for the whale