Part One

Bonnie Ship, the Diamond

Before the Night is Over

Johnny Jump Up

Bonnie Ship the Diamond

The Diamond is a ship me lads,
For the Davis Straits she's bound
And the Quay it is all garnished
With bonnie lassies round

Captain Thompson gives the order
To sail the ocean wide
Where the sun it never sets me lads
Nor darkness dims the sky.

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And it's cheer up, me lads
Let your hearts never fail,
For the bonnie ship The Diamond
Goes a-fishing for the whale!

Along the quay at Peterhead
The lassies gathered around
Wi' their shawls all pulled about them
And the salt tears runnin' down

Oh don't you cry, my bonnie lass,
Though you be left behind
For the rose will grow on Greenland's ice
Before I’ll change my mind.

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Here's a health to The Resolution,
Likewise the Eliza Dane
Here's a health to the Battler of Montrose
And The Diamond ship of fame

We wear the trousers of the white
And the jackets of the blue
When we return to Peterhead,
We'll have sweethearts enoo.

Chorus: X2

It’ll be bright both day and night
When the Greenland lads come home
Wi' a ship that's full of oil me lads
And money for to burn

We'll make the cradles for to rock
And the blankets for to tear
And every lass in Peterhead
Sing hushabye my dear!

Chorus:

Before the Night is Over
 
Some take their hope, and hide it away
It burns in the darkness, like gold in a grave
There's a spark inside, that can't be concealed
No hurt is so secret that it won't be healed
 
Chrous:
Before the night is over
Make your heart an open door
Then all we hold inside us
Won't divide us any more
Before the night is over
And the time we have is done
Before our courage fades away
Let our hearts be bound as one
 
I've lost my way, when nothing is clear
I've been afraid to love, then I hurt what I fear
I can face the night, find strength in your eyes
not afraid to fall, not afraid to rise
 
Chorus
 
Chorus repeat and fade

Johnny Jump Up

I'll tell you a story that happened to me
One day as I went down to Yawl by the sea
The sun it was bright and the day it was warm,
Says I, “a quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm”
I went in to the barman, and says “give me a stout”
Says the barman, “I'm sorry, all the beer is sold out
Try whiskey or vodka, ten years in the wood”
Says I, “I'll try cider, I've heard it was good.”

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Oh never, Oh never, Oh never again
If I live to a hundred or a hundred and ten
I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up
After drinking a pint of the Johnny Jump Up

After lowering the third I headed straight to the yard
Where I bumped into Brophy, the big civic guard
”Come here to me boy, don't you know I'm the law?”
Well, I up with me fist and I shattered his jaw
He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up
But it wasn't I hit him, 'twas the Johnny Jump Up

The next thing I remember down in Yawl by the sea
Was a cripple on crutches and says he to me,
”I'm afraid of me life I'll be hit by a car
Won't you help me across to the Railwayman’s Bar?”
After drinking three pints of that cider so sweet
He threw down his crutches and danced at his feet

Chorus...

Now I went up the lee road, a friend for to see
They call it the madhouse in Cork by the lee
Well when I got there, the truth I do tell,
They had this poor bugger locked up in a cell
Said the guard, testing him, say these words if you can
”Around the ragged rock the ragged rascal ran”
”Tell him I'm not crazy, tell him I'm not mad
It was six pints of that cider I had!”

Chorus...

Now a man died in the union by the name of McNabb
They washed him and laid him outside on the slab
And after the coroner his measurements did take
His wife brought him home to a bloody fine wake
Twas about 12 o'clock and the beer was high
The corpse sits up and says with a sigh
”I can't get to heaven, they won't let me up
Til I bring them a quart of the Johnny Jump Up!”

Chorus... (x2)