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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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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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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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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 anoo |
