Bonnie Ship The Diamond/Tamlinn - Gaelic Storm

The Diamond is a ship me lads

For the Davis Straits she’s bound

And the Quay it is all garnished

With bonnie lassies round

Captain Thompson gives the order

To sail the ocean wide

Where the sun it never sets me lads

Nor darkness dims the sky

And it’s cheer up, me lads

Let your hearts never fail

For the bonnie ship The Diamond

Goes a-fishing for the whale!

Along the quay at Peterhead

The lassies stand around

Wi' their shawls all pulled about them

And the salt tears runnin' 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 our mind

And it’s cheer up, me 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

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 hae sweethearts enoo

And it’s cheer up, me lads

Let your hearts never fail

For the bonnie ship The Diamond

Goes a-fishing for the whale!

It;ll be bright both day and night

When the Greenland lads come hame

Wi' a ship that’s fu' o' 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 in Peterhead

Sing hushabye my dear!

And it’s cheer up, me lads

Let your hearts never fail

For the bonnie ship The Diamond

Goes a-fishing for the whale!