THE DIAMOND         (Trad. Scots)
transcribed from the album "Two for the Road"
 (Danny Carnahan & Robin Petrie), Cassette = CityFolk CFR 010
by Dexter N. Muir (D.N.Muir@massey.ac.nz)

Tuning: standard, Capo 2 (Am is really Bm)

     Am            Em
"The Diamond" is a ship my lads
        A                   Em
And for Davis Straits she's Bound
        Am             Em
And the quay it is all garnish-ed
     F      G      Am, D
With bonnie lasses round

Captain Thompson gives the orders,
For to sail the ocean wide,
Where the sun it never sets my lads
Nor darkness dims the tide

Chorus:
        F     G     Am
So it's cheer up my lads
         Dm     Em    Am
Let your hearts never fail
        F      G         Am 
For the bonnie ship "The Diamond"
       F       G       Am, D
Goes a fishing for the whale

All along the quay at Peterhead
The lassies stand around
With their shawls all pulled around them
And their salt tears running down
Now don't you cry, my pretty lass,
Though you be left behind,
For the rose will bloom on Greenland's ice
Before we change our minds,

Here's a health to to the "Resolution",
Likewise the "Eliza Swan".
Here's a health to the "Battle of Montrose"
And "The Diamond", ship of fame.
We'll wear the trousers of the white
And the jacket of the blue,
And when we return to Peterhead
We'll have sweethearts enou'

Oh it will be bright both day and night
When the Greenland lads come home
With a ship that's full of oil, me boys,
And money to our names.
We'll make the cradles for to rock
And the blankets for to tear,
And every lass in Peterhead
Sing hush-a-bye my dear.