Sloop John B

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Beach boys - Sloop John B

https://youtu.be/C9fw7eOqBSk

https://youtu.be/xDvQHIJqoaA

https://youtu.be/64RmaoIq-Kg - Karaoke


The Kingston Trio

https://youtu.be/hkCwY9kdgDg


Waylon Jennings

https://youtu.be/oRlkVXmwKTU

 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Sloop John B" is a song by the Beach Boys and the seventh track on their 1966 album Pet Sounds. It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, "The John B. Sails", taken from Carl Sandburg's 1927 collection of folk songs, The American Songbag. Brian Wilson sang, produced, and arranged the Beach Boys' recording. Released as an A-sided single two months before Pet Sounds, it peaked at number 3 in the US and number 2 in the UK. In several other countries, the single was a number one hit.

The group's folk rock[1] adaptation of "Sloop John B" was ranked #271 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[2]

Sloop John B Lyrics

We come on the Sloop John B

My grandfather and me

Around Nassau town we did roam

Drinking all night

Got into a fight

Well I feel so broke up

I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail

See how the main sail sets

Call for the Captain ashore

Let me go home, let me go home

I want to go home, yeah yeah

Well I feel so broke up

I want to go home

The first mate he got drunk

And broke in the Cap'n's trunk

The constable had to come and take him away

Sheriff John Stone

Why don't you leave me alone, yeah yeah

Well I feel so broke up, I want to go home

So hoist up the John B's sail

See how the main sail sets

Call for the Captain ashore

Let me go home, let me go home

I want to go home, let me go home

Why don't you let me go home

The poor cook he caught the fits

And threw away all my grits

And then he took and he ate up all of my corn

Let me go home

Why don't they let me go home

This is the worst trip I've ever been on

So hoist up the John B's sail

See how the main sail sets

Call for the Captain ashore

Let me go home, let me go home

I want to go home, let me go home

Why don't you let me go home.

Songwriters: Edwards, Nole / Wilson, Don / Bogle, Bob / Taylor, Melvin

Sloop John B lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

PS

A very popular group song during our medical 

 student days 1960-65