Bonnie Ship The Diamond

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[Verse]
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The Diamond is a ship me lads,
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For the Davis Strait she's bound,
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And the quay it is all garnished
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With the bonnie lassies round.
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Captain Thompson gives the orders
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To sail the ocean wide
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Where the sun it never sets me lads
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Nor darkness dims the sky.


[Chorus]
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And it's cheer up, me lads,
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Let your hearts never fail,
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The bonnie ship the Diamond
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Goes a-fishing for the whale!


[Interlude]
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[Verse]
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Along the quay at Peterhead
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The lassies gather 'round
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Wi' their shawls all pulled about them
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And the salt tears runnin' down.
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Now, don't you cry, my bonnie lass,
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Though you be left behind
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For the rose will grow on Greenland's ice
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Before I'll change my mind.


[Chorus]
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And it's cheer up, me lads,
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Let your hearts never fail,
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The bonnie ship the Diamond
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Goes a-fishing for the whale!


[Interlude]
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[Verse]
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Here's a health to the Resolution,
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Likewise the Eliza Swan,
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Here's a health to the Battler of Montrose
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And the Diamond ship of fame.
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We wear the trousers of the white
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And the jackets of the blue,
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When we return to Peterhead
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We'll hae sweethearts enoo.


[Chorus]
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And it's cheer up, me lads,
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Let your hearts never fail,
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The bonnie ship the Diamond
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Goes a-fishing for the whale!


[Interlude]
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[Solo]
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[Chorus]
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And it's cheer up, me lads,
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Let your hearts never fail,
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The bonnie ship the Diamond
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Goes a-fishing for the whale!


[Verse]
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It'll be bright both day and night
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When the Greenland lads return
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With a ship that's full of oil, me lads,
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And money's for to burn.
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We'll make the cradles for to rock
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And the blankets for to tear
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And every lass in Peterhead
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Will sing hush-a-bye my dear!


[Chorus]
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And it's cheer up, me lads,
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Let your hearts never fail,
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The bonnie ship the Diamond
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Goes a-fishing for the whale!


[Chorus]
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And it's cheer up, me lads,
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Let your hearts never fail,
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The bonnie ship the Diamond
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Goes a-fishing for the whale!