We come on the sloop John B
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My grandfather and me
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Around Nassau town we did roam
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Drinking all night
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Got into a fight
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Well I feel so broke up, I want to go home
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So hoist up the John B's sail
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See how the mainsail sets
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Call for the Captain ashore - let me go home
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Let me go home.
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I wanna go home, yeah yeah
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Well I feel so broke up - I wanna go home
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The first mate he got drunk
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Broke in the Cap'n's trunk
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The constable had to come and take him away
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Sheriff John Stone
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Why don't you leave me alone? yeah yeah
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Well I feel so broke up, I wanna go home
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So hoist up the John B's sail
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See how the mainsail sets
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Call for the Captain ashore Let me go home, let me go home
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(a capella)
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I wanna go home, let me go home
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(Why don't you let me go)
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Hoist up the John B's sail (Hoist up the John B)
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I feel so broke up
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I wanna go home.
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The poor cook he caught the fits
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And threw away all my grits
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And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
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Let me go home
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Why don't they let me go home?
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This is the worst trip
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I've ever been on
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So hoist up the John B's sail
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See how the mainsail sets
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Call for the Captain ashore - let me go home
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Let me go home.
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I wanna go home - let me go home
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Why don't you let me go home?
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(fade out)
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Wreck of the Sloop John B.
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| Catch 22 |
