the diamond is a ship me lads for the davis strait she s bound and the quay it is all garnished with bonnie lasses 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 its cheer up me lads let your hearts never fail for the bonnie ship the diamond goes a fishing for the whale oh along the quay at peterhead them lassies stand around with their shawls all pulled around them and the salt tears runnin down oh dont you weep me bonnie lass though you be left behind for the rose will grow on greenlands ice before we change our mind and its cheer up me lads let your hearts never fail for the bonnie ship the diamond goes a fishing for the whale oh heres a health to the resolution likewise to eliza swan here s a health to the battle of montrose and the diamond ship of fame oh we wear the trousers of the white and the jackets of the blue when we return to peterhead well have sweethearts enou and its cheer up me lads let your hearts never fail for the bonnie ship the diamond goes a fishing for the whale oh it will be bright both day and night when the greenland lads come hame with a ship that s full of oil me lads and money to our name oh well make them cradles for to rock and the blankets for to tear and every lass in peterhead sing hushabye my dear and its cheer up me lads let your hearts never fail for the bonnie ship the diamond goes a fishing for the whale and its cheer up me lads let your hearts never fail for the bonnie ship the diamond goes a fishing for the whale