Artist: | The Corries (English) |
User: | TA52477 |
Duration: | 240 seconds |
Delay: | 20 seconds |
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The Corries - The bonnie ship, the Diamond - Capo II (optional)
Am Em Am Em
The Diamond is a ship, my lads, for the Davis Straits she's bound,
Am Em C G Am
the Quay it is all garnish-ed with bonnie lassies round.
Am Em Am Em
Captain Thompson gives the order to sail the ocean wide,
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where the sun it never sets, my lads, nor darkness dims the sky.
Am
For it's cheer up, my lads! Let your hearts never fail,
C Em C G Am
for the bonnie ship The Diamond goes a' fishin´ for the whale!
Am Em Am Em
Along the quay at Peterhead, the lassies stand around,
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their shawls all pulled about them and the salt tears running down.
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Don't you weep, my bonnie lass, though you be left behind,
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for the rose will grow on Greenland's ice before we change our mind.
Am
For it's cheer up, my lads! Let your hearts never fail,
C Em C G Am
for the bonnie ship The Diamond goes a' fishin´ for the whale!
Am Em Am Em
Here's a health to The Resolution! Likewise The Eliza Swan!
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Three cheers to The Battler of Montrose, The Diamond, ship of fame!
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We’ll wear the trousers of the white and the jackets of the blue,
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when we get back to Peterhead, we'll have sweethearts enoo.
Am
For it's cheer up, my lads! Let your hearts never fail,
C Em C G Am
for the bonnie ship The Diamond goes a' fishin´ for the whale!
Am Em Am Em
It will be bright by day and night when the Greenland lads come hame,
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with a ship that's full of oil, my lads, and money tae your name.
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We'll make the cradles for to rock and the blankets for to tear,
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and every lass in Peterhead sing "hushabye", my dear!
Am
For it's cheer up, my lads! Let your hearts never fail,
C Em C G Am
for the bonnie ship The Diamond goes a' fishin´ for the whale!
Am
For it's cheer up, my lads! Let your hearts never fail,
C Em C G Am
for the bonnie ship The Diamond goes a' fishin´ for the whale!
Am Em Am Em Am Em . . .