THE DIAMOND\u00a0\u00a0 (also called The Bonny Ship the Diamond)<\/p>\n
The Diamond is a ship, my lads, for the Davis Strait she’s bound,
\nAnd the quay it is all garnish-ed with bonny lasses ’round;
\nCaptain Thompson gives the order to sail the ocean wide,
\nWhere the sun it never sets, my lads, no darkness dims the sky,<\/p>\n
chorus Along the quay at Peterhead, the lasses stand around, cho:<\/p>\n Here’s a health to the Resolution, likewise the Eliza Swan, cho:<\/p>\n It’ll be bright both day and night when the Greenland lads come home, cho:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE DIAMOND\u00a0\u00a0 (also called The Bonny Ship the Diamond) The Diamond is a ship, my lads, for the Davis Strait she’s bound, And the quay it is all garnish-ed with bonny lasses ’round; Captain Thompson gives the order to sail the ocean wide, Where the sun it never sets, my lads, no darkness dims the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-368","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions\/369"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSo it’s cheer up my lads, let your hearts never fail,<\/em><\/strong>
\nWhile the bonny ship, the Diamond, goes a-fishing for the whale.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTheir shawls all pulled around them and the salt tears running down;
\nDon’t you weep, my bonny lass, though you be left behind,
\nFor the rose will grow on Greenland’s ice before we change our mind.<\/p>\n
\nHere’s a health to the Battler of Montrose and the Diamond, ship of fame;
\nWe wear the trousers of the white and the jackets of the blue,
\nWhen we return to Peterhead, we’ll have sweethearts anew,<\/p>\n
\nWith a ship that’s full of oil, my lads, and money to our name;
\nWe’ll make the cradles for to rock and the blankets for to tear,
\nAnd every lass in Peterhead\u2019ll sing “Hushabye, my dear”.<\/p>\n