Sloop John B Uke tab by The Beach Boys

4 Chords used in the song: G, D, G7, C

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Artist: The Beach Boys

Album: Pet Sounds

Year: 1966

Difficulty:

3.25

(Beginner)

Key: C, G, Am, EmChords

# Capo I

   G
We come on the sloop John B

My grandfather and me
                          D
Around Nassau town we did roam
             G     G7
Drinking all night
           C
Got into a fight
       G
Well I feel so broke up
D            G
I want to go home

   G
So hoist up the John B s sail

See how the mainsail sets

Call for the captain ashore
          D               G   G7
Let me go home, let me go home
           C
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
       G
Well I feel so broke up
D          G
I wanna go home

    G
The first mate he got drunk

And broke in the capn s trunk
                                        D
The constable had to come and take him away
             G    G7
Sheriff John Stone
                        C
Why don t you leave me alone, yeah yeah
       G                  D        G
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home

   G
So hoist up the John B s sail

See how the mainsail sets

Call for the captain ashore
          D               G   G7
Let me go home, let me go home
           C
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
       G
Well I feel so broke up
D          G
I wanna go home

    G
The poor cook he caught the fits

And threw away all my grits
                                         D
And then he took and he ate up all of my corn
          G   G7
Let me go home
                         C
Why don t they let me go home
     G                 D              G
This is the worst trip I ve ever been on

   G
So hoist up the John B s sail

See how the mainsail sets

Call for the captain ashore
          D               G   G7
Let me go home, let me go home
           C
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
       G
Well I feel so broke up
D          G
I wanna go home

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About this song: Sloop John B

"Sloop John B" is the seventh track on The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album and was also a single which was released in 1966 on Capitol Records. It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, possibly recorded earliest by The Weavers under the title "Wreck of the John B", the song taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927). Alan Lomax made a field recording of the song in Nassau, 1935, under the title "Histe Up the John B. Sail".

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