Bonny Ship the Diamond Chords by The Longest Johns

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The diamond [C] is a ship, me [D] lads, for the Davis Strait [C] we're bound.
[Dm] _ [D] Keat [F] is all garnished with long hair lasses [D] around.
Captain Thompson gives [C] the orders [D] to sail the [C] ocean wide.
[D] Oh, and the sun it [C] never sets, me [F] lads, no darkness dims [D] the sky.
For it's cheer up, me lads, let [Bb] your hearts never fail.
[Dm] For the Barney ship the diamond [D] goes a-fishing for the whale.
For [Bb] it's cheer up, me lads, [C] let your hearts never fail.
[D] For the Barney ship the diamond goes a-fishing for the whale.
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Along the [C] quay of [D] Peterhead the lasses stand [C] [Dm] around.
[D] With shores all [C] pulled around [F] them and their [D] salt is running down.
Well, don't you weep, [C] my bonnie lass, [D] though you'll be [C] left behind.
[D] For the rose will bloom on [F] Greenland's ice before [D] we change our mind.
For it's cheer up, me lads, let [Bb] your hearts never fail.
[C] For the Barney ship the diamond [D] goes a-fishing for the whale.
[Bb] For it's cheer up, me lads, [C] let your hearts never fail.
[G] For the Barney ship the diamond [D] goes a-fishing [Dm] for the whale.
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Here's the health to the [Am] resolution.
_ [D] Likewise the [C] Eliza swan.
[D] Three cheers for the [C] battler of Montrose [F] and the diamond [D] ship of fame.
We wear the [A] trousers of the [D] white and jackets [G] of the blue.
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When we get back to [C] _ [F] Peterhead we'll have [D] sweethearts anew.
For it's cheer up, me lads, let [Bb] your hearts never fail.
[C] For the Barney ship the diamond [D] goes a-fishing for the whale.
[Bb] For it's cheer up, me lads, [C] let your hearts never fail.
[G] For the Barney ship the diamond [D]
goes a-fishing [Dm] for the whale. _ _ _
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It will be bright both day [A] and night when Greenland lads come hame.
Our ship full [Am] up with oil, me lads, and money [D] to our name.
[Dm] We'll make [D] the cradles for to rock and the blankets for to tear.
At every [E] lass in Peterhead sing Hushabye, my dear.
[D] For it's cheer up, me lads, let [Bb] your hearts never fail.
[Dm] For the Barney ship the diamond [D] goes a-fishing for the whale.
[Bb] For it's cheer up, me lads, [C] let your hearts never [G] fail.
For [D] the Barney ship the diamond goes a-fishing for the whale.
For it's cheer up, me lads, let [Bb] your hearts never fail.
[C] For the Barney ship the diamond [D] goes a-fishing for the whale.
[Bb] For it's cheer up, me lads, let [C] your hearts never fail.
[G] For the Barney ship the diamond goes [Dm] a-fishing for the whale. _
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