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.