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Thread #15756   Message #3692665
Posted By: Joe Offer
09-Mar-15 - 02:29 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Fathom the Bowl
Subject: ADD Version: Fathom the Bowl
This is what was proposed for the upcoming Rise Again songbook. Apparently, it comes from here:The John C. Reilly recording is on Johnny Depp's Rogues' Gallery collection of sea songs. I don't have Revels Garland of Song so I can't look it up there.

Fathom the Bowl

Come all ye bold heroes give an ear to me song
We'll sing in the praise of good brandy & rum
It's a clear crystal fountain near Ireland doth roll
Give me the punch ladle, I'll fathom the bowl
I'll fathom the bowl (2x) / Give me…   (in 3/4)
G - - - / D - C G / - - C D / G C D G // G D G D / G C D G
From France we do get brandy, from Jamaica comes rum
Sweet oranges & apples from Portugal come
But stout & strong cider are Ireland's control / Give…

Me wife she do disturb me when I'm laying at my ease
She does as she likes, she says as she please
Me wife, she's the devil, she's black as the coal…

Me father he do lie in the depths of the sea
With no stone at his head, but what matters for he
It's a clear crystal fountain near Ireland doth roll…

So come all ye bold heroes give an ear to me song
We'll sing in the praise of good brandy & rum
It's a clear crystal fountain near Ireland doth roll…
trad. (English)
In Revels Garland of S.