| We come on the sloop John B, my grandfather and me
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| Around Nassau town we did roam drinkin' all night
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| Got into a fight, well, I feel so break up
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| I want to go home
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| (I want to go home, so now)
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| Hoist up the John B’s sails
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| See how the main sails set
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| Call for the captain ashore
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| Let me go home
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| (Let me go home)
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| Let me go home
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| (I want to go home)
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| I want to go home
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| (Why don’t you let me go home?)
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| Well, I feel so break up
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| I want to go home
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| (I want to go home)
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| First mate, he got drunk
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| Broke up the people’s trunk
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| Constable had to come and take him away
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| Sheriff John Stone
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| (Sheriff John Stone)
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| Why don’t you leave me alone?
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| (Why don’t you leave me alone?)
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| Well, I feel so break up
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| I want to go home
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| (I want to go home, so, now)
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| Well, the poor cook he caught the fits
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| Throw away all of my grits.
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| Then he took and he ate up all of my corn
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| Let me go home
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| (I want to go home)
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| I want to go home
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| (Why don’t you let me go home?)
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| This is the worst trip since I’ve been born
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| (Since I have been born, so, now)
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| Hoist up the John B’s sails
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| (John B. sails)
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| See how the main sails set
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| (Main sails set)
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| Call for the captain ashore
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| Let me go home
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| (Let me go home)
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| Let me go home
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| (I want to go home)
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| I want to go home
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| (Why don’t you let me go home?)
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| Well, I feel so break up
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| I want to go home
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| (I want to go home) |