Wolfstone - Bonnie Ship the Diamond lyrics

Oh, the Diamond is a ship, me lads, for the Davis strait she's bound

And the key it is all garnished wae Bonnie lassies round

Captain Thompson gees the orders to sail the ocean wide

Where the sun it never sets me, lads or darkness dims the sky

All along the quays at Peterhead, the lassies stand around

With their shawls all pulled about them, and their salt tears running down

Oh, don't you weep my Bonnie lass though you be left behind

For the rose will grow on Greenland's ice before we change your mind

And it's cheer up, my lads

Let your hearts never fail

For the Bonnie ship the Diamond

Goes a-fishing for the whale

Here's a health to the Resolution and likewise the Eliza Swan

Here's a health to the Battler of Montroseand, 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 have sweethearts anew

And it's cheer up, my lads

Let your hearts never fail

For the Bonnie ship the Diamond

Goes a-fishing for the whale

And it's cheer up, my lads

Let your hearts never fail

For the Bonnie ship the Diamond

Goes a-fishing for the whale

My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding

My heart has been wrent from me and I am crying

All the beauty around me fades and I am screaming

I am the last of the great whales and I am dying

It'll be bricht both the day and night when the Greenland lads come home

We'll have a ship that's full of oil, me lads, and money to our name

We'll make the cradles all to rock and the blankets for to tear

And every lass in Peterhead sing 'hushabye my dear'

And it's cheer up, my lads

Let your hearts never fail

For the Bonnie ship the Diamond

Goes a-fishing for the whale

And it's cheer up, my lads

Let your hearts never fail

For the Bonnie ship the Diamond

Goes a-fishing for the whale

It's cheer up, my lads

Let your hearts never fail

For the Bonnie ship the Diamond

Goes a-fishing for the whale