| We come on the sloop John B
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| My grandfather and me
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| 'Round Nassau town we did roam
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| Drinking all night, we got into a fight
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| I feel so breakup, I want to go home
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| So hoist up the John B sails
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| See how the mains’l’s set
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| Send for the captain ashore
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| Let me go home
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| Let me go home (let me go home)
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| Let me go home (let me go home)
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| I feel so breakup
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| I want to go home
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| The 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 Johnstone, please let me alone
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| I fell so breakup, I want to go home
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| So hoist up the John B sails
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| See how the mains’l’s set
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| Send for the captain ashore
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| Let me go home
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| Let me go home (let me go home)
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| Let me go home (let me go home)
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| I feel so breakup
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| I want to go home
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| Let me go home (let me go home)
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| Let me go home (let me go home)
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| I feel so breakup
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| I want to go home |