| lyric | 1. The Diamond is a ship me lads,
for the Davia Straits she’s bound,
And the quay it is all garnished
with bonnie lasses round;
Captain Thomson gives the orders
to sail the ocean wide,
Where the sun it never sets, me lads,
noir darkness dim the skies.
Ref.: So it’s cheer up, me lads,
Let your hearts never fail,
As the bonnie skip the Diamond
Goes a-fishing for the whale.
2. Along the quay at Peterhead
the lasses stand aropund,
With their shawls all pulle about them
and the salt tears running down,
Don’t you weep, my bonnie lasses,
though you be left behind,
For the rose will grow in Greenland’s ice
before we change our mind.
3. Here’s 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 trousers of the white
and the jackets of the blue,
When we return to Peterhead
we’ll have sweethearts enough.
4. It’ll be bright both day and night
when the Greenland lads come home
With a ship that’s full of oil, me lads,
and money to our name;
We’ll make the cradles for to rock
and the blankets for to tear,
And every lass inPeterhead
sing ,Hush-a-bye, my dear’. |