We comeon the

Sloop

John

B

My grandfather and me

Around

Nassau

Town we did to roam

Drinking all night, got into a fight

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, yeah, yeah

Well

I feel so broke up

I wanna go home

The

First

Mate he got drunk

He broke in the captain's trunk

The constable had to come and take him away

Sheriff

John

Stone

Why don't you leave me alone

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

Hoist up the

John

B's sail

Well

I feel so broke up

I wanna go home

The poor cook

He caught the fits

He 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...