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       1.
        
       We come on the sloop John B.
        
       My grandfather and me
        
       round Nassau town we did roam.
        
       Drinking all night, we got into a fight,
        
       I feel so breakup, I want to go home.
        
        
       Refrain:
        
       So hoist up the John B.'s sails,
        
       see how the main sail sets,
        
       send for the captain ashore, let me go home,
        
       let me go home, I want to go home,
        
       I feel so breakup, I want to go home.
        
        
       2.
        
       Well, the first mate, he got drunk,
        
       and destroyed the people's trunk,
        
       a Constable come aboard, take him away,
        
       Sheriff Johnstone, please let me alone,
        
       I feel so breakup, I want to go home.
        
        
       Refrain:
        
        
       3.
        
       Well the poor cook he got fits,
        
       throw 'way all the grits,
        
       the he took and eat up all my corn,
        
       let me go home, I want to go home,
        
       oh, this is the worst trip since I've been born.
        
        
       Refrain:
       
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