the bonnie 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 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 them lasses stand around with their shawls all pulled about them and the salt tears running down oh don t you weep me bonnie lass though you ve been 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 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 we ll make them 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 and it s cheer up me lads let your hearts never fail for the bonnie ship the diamond goes a fishing for the whale