| The Diamond is a ship me lads
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| For the Davis Straits she’s bound
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| And the Quay it is all garnished
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| With bonnie lassies round
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| Captain Thompson gives the order
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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
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| And it’s cheer up, me lads
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| Let your hearts never fail
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| For the bonnie ship The Diamond
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| Goes a-fishing for the whale!
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| Along the quay at Peterhead
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| The lassies stand around
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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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| Oh don’t you weep, 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 we change our mind
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| And it’s cheer up, me lads
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| Let your hearts never fail
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| For the bonnie ship The Diamond
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| Goes a-fishing for the whale!
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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
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| And it’s cheer up, me lads
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| Let your hearts never fail
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| For the bonnie ship The Diamond
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| Goes a-fishing for the whale!
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| It;ll be bright both day and night
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| When the Greenland lads come hame
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| Wi' a ship that’s fu' o' oil me lads
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| And money to our name
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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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| Sing hushabye my dear!
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| And it’s cheer up, me lads
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| Let your hearts never fail
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| For the bonnie ship The Diamond
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| Goes a-fishing for the whale! |