Tour Scotland Video The Bonny Ship the Diamond Folk Night Wheel Inn Scone Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Andrew Gordon singing The Bonny Ship the Diamond at the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Andrew Gordon was born 1976 in Fort William on the West Coast of Scotland. Although Andrew grew up in Perth and now lives on the east coast Andrew is still most at home among the hills and lochs of the West. He never misses an opportunity to get out that way. Especially fond of Isle of Skye, Andrew has played many gigs there.

The Diamond is a ship, my lads, for the Davis Strait she's bound,
And the quay it is all garnished 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 sky,

Chorus:
So it's cheer up my lads, let your hearts never fail,
While the bonny ship, the Diamond, goes a-fishing for the whale.

Along the quay at Peterhead, the lasses stand aroon,
Wi' their shawls all pulled around them and the salt tears runnin' doon;
Don't you weep, my bonny lass, though you be left behind,
For the rose will grow on Greenland's ice before we change our mind.

Chorus

Here's a health to the Resolution, likewise the Eliza Swan,
Here's a health to the Battler of Montrose and the Diamond, ship of fame;
We wear the trouser o' the white and the jackets o' the blue,
When we return to Peterhead, we'll hae sweethearts anoo,

Chorus

It'll be bricht both day and nicht when the Greenland lads come hame,
Wi' a ship that's fu' of oil, my lads, and money to our name;
We'll make the cradles for to rock and the blankets for to tear,
And every lass in Peterhead sing "Hushabye, my dear"

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