Sloop John B
   
 
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Album Information

Album Name (Year):
Pet Sounds (1966)
Record Label:
Capitol Records
Billboard Chart:
The Billboard 200
Entry Week (Position):
05/28/1966 (n/a)
Peak Position:
10
Weeks On Chart:
39
Songs On This Album: (Click For Lyrics)


Album Notes
This album also spent 39 weeks on the British Charts starting 07/09/66, peaking at #2.
{Album Notes}




 

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 mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, yeah, yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I wanna 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 wanna go home

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
(Hoist up the John B's sail)
Hoist up the John B
I feel so broke up I wanna go home
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 mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, let me go home
Why don't you let me go home


 
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Song Information
Song Written By:
Tony Asher, Brian Wilson
Track Number:
01
Track Length:
2:25
Billboard Chart:
The Billboard Hot 100
Entry Week (Position):
04/02/1966 (68)
Peak Position:
3
Weeks On Chart:
11


Song Notes
This song also spent 15 weeks on the British Charts starting 04/23/66, peaking at #2.

Based on a West Indies folk song "The Wreck Of John B"


Other versions of this song has been recorded by:
The Kingston Trio
Alan Lomax
Joseph Spence
Roger Whitaker
Dick Dale
Catch-22
Relient K
The Weavers
Chet Atkins
Jerry Reed


 
     
 
 

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