“Sloop John B” is a traditional folk song from the Bahamas, “The John B. Sails”, which was included in Carl Sandburg’s 1927 collection of folk songs The American Songbag. It is best known for its folk rock adaptation by the Beach Boys.<\/p>\n
(G) \r\nWe come on the sloop John B\r\nMy grandfather and me (D)\r\nAround Nassau town we did roam\r\n (G)\r\nDrinking all night\r\n (C)\r\nGot into a fight\r\n (G)\r\nWell I feel so broke up\r\n(D) (G)\r\nI want to go home\r\nSo hoist up the John B's sail\r\nSee how the mainsail sets (D)\r\nCall for the Captain ashore, let me go home\r\n (G) (C)\r\nI wanna go home, let me go home\r\n (G) (D) (G)\r\nWell, I feel so broke up I wanna go home\r\n\r\nThe first mate he got drunk\r\nAnd broke in the Cap'n's trunk\r\nThe constable had to come and take him away\r\nSheriff John Stone\r\nWhy don't you leave me alone, yeah yeah\r\nWell I feel so broke up I wanna go home\r\nChorus\r\n\r\nThe poor cook he caught the fits\r\nAnd threw away all my grits\r\nAnd then he took and he ate up all of my corn\r\nLet me go home\r\nWhy don't they let me go home\r\nThis is the worst trip I've ever been on\r\n<\/pre>\nSloop John B.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n
ABOUT THE SONG
\nStyle: ExperiMental Reggae Music
\nRecording: digital 1-track stereo \/ recorded live<\/p>\nVocals, Guitar, Keyboards and Synthesizers (microKorg, Korg N364, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, Boss Loop Station, Boss BR-600, DigiTech RP3)<\/p>\n
From the album The Dread Nots<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
\nby Daniel Brouse<\/p>\nMore by Narley Marley<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Sloop John B” is a traditional folk song from the Bahamas, “The John B. Sails”, which was included in Carl Sandburg’s 1927 collection of folk songs The American Songbag. It is best known for its folk rock adaptation by the Beach Boys. (G) We come on the sloop John B My grandfather and me (D) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1478,14,17],"tags":[3435,198,269,312,539,556,613,998,703,781,3434],"class_list":["post-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-coversongs","category-lyrics","category-narley-marley-reggae","tag-country-reggae","tag-daniel-brouse","tag-experimental","tag-free","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-original","tag-psychedelic","tag-reggae","tag-songs","tag-the-dread-nots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16458,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions\/16458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}