BONNIE SHIP THE DIAMOND

Created on 20/11/2014
Latest update on 17/01/2022

Artist: Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd
Author: traditional
Label: Riverside
Year: 1957

On album Thar She Blows! About a whaling ship that got stuck in ice and crushed in Melville Bay along Greenland in 1830. The song was two years old, probably written by someone aboard. Bert Lloyd worked on a whaling ship bound for Antarctica in 1937-38 (The Southern Empress).

Covers:

1962:

Judy Collins

1964:

Corries

1965:

Watersons

1967:

A.L. Lloyd

1967:

Bob Dylan [Basement tape]

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