Chords for Al Jardine - Sloop John B (2018)

_ _ _ _ There was a group called the Kingston Trio and they were really hot.
They were actually the folk group Beach Boys.
Is that the right word?
You know what I mean.
They were the Beach Boys of [B] the folk era.
And [Abm] they had these beautiful striped shirts and they were handsome and they [Ab] went to college.
They [Bb] were all very good at the dance.
They're gods, you know.
[G] _ But they came up with this one song and it just stuck [N] with me and I wanted to do it.
And finally I got my chance.
I said, Brian, you've got to listen to this.
You're going to like this.
But I played it on piano for him because he used to be the keyboard guy.
He didn't want to do it on the guitar.
So I worked on the music.
And so I said, that's nice.
Let's go back to singing now.
We were doing other things and we were trying to squeeze in as much as possible.
And the very next day he calls me and he calls and says, hey, come on down.
We're going to sing Sloop John B.
_ _ Well, thanks for the invitation.
Anyway, so what I want to do is we're going to try the style that I, that we started listening to by the trio.
And then we're going to evolve and then we'll show you how to evolve into the Beach Boys version of _ [G] _
[Bm] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Sloop John B.
_ My grandfather ran me around Nassau town, me [D] and Rome. _
Drinking [G] all night, drinking all night.
[D] Got into [C] a fight, got into a fight.
Well, [G] I feel so break up.
[D] I want to [G] go home, I want to go home.
So I hoist up the John B.
set.
See how he makes it set.
Call for the captain ashore, let me [D] go home, let me go home.
[G] I want to go home, why [D] don't you let me [C] go home, why don't you let me go home.
Well, [G] I feel so break up.
[D] [G] I want to go home, I want to go home.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [Em] _
[C] _ [G] He come on the Sloop John B.
My grandfather ran me _ around Nassau town, me [D] and Rome. _
Drinking [G] all night, I got into [C] a fight. _
_ [G] Well, I feel so broke up.
[D] I want to [G] go home, I got to go home.
So I hoist up the John B.
set.
And see how the main set set.
And call for the captain ashore, let me [D] go home. _
I want to [G] go home, why don't you let me [C] go home.
The [Am] end.
[G] Well, I feel so broke [D] up.
I want to [G] go home.
I did it, I did it.
And now I'm overcooking the fish.
_ Broken the captain's drum.
The constable had to come and take [D] him away. _
Now Sheriff [G] John Stone, why don't you leave [C] me alone.
[Am] The end.
[G] I feel so broke [D] up.
I want to [G] go home.
I did it, I did it.
So I hoist up the John B.
set.
I hoist up the John B.
set.
And see how the main set set.
And call for the captain ashore, let me [D] go home.
Let me go home.
I want to [G] go home, let me go home.
_ [C] _ [Em]
[Am] The end.
Well, [G] this is the worst trip [Am] [D] I've ever [G] been on. _
Well, now the poor cookie cut the fish.
And he threw away all my grits.
And then he took and he ate up all of [D] my bones. _
Let me [G] go home.
_ _ _ [C] _ _
[Am] Well, [G] this is the best trip [D] I've ever [G] been on. _
_ We call this Luke John B.
My grandfather and me.
Around [N] Nassau town we've been roaming. _
We found that guy in Tupelo fight.
He [Am] ate me.
[G] So this is the best [Am] trip [D] I've [G] ever been on.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ You were just looking at, we're actually from a children's primer or a book, whatever you want to call it.
About a grit for the kids around from five to ten years old.
It was like somebody approached me to do a book, a children's book.
It was kind of a celebrity thing in the 80s or whatever it was, the 90s or whatever.
And so I did.
He hooked me up with an artist who [F] did these beautiful illustrations.
So I wanted to show those to you up here.
And [N] we _ _ _ _ did a re-recording.
Yeah, yeah, we did a re-recording.
More kid friendly with the grandfather.
For those of us that are grandfathers, we [Dm] appreciate that.
_ [N] The lyrics are, well, I can sing it in pages if you want it from a [G] book.
We sailed into a fog.
According to the captain's log.
And that's when the pirate ship came [Bm] alongside.
[D] _
[G] Heard a voice roar, _ work harder, more.
[C] _ _
[G] That told my [D] grandpa, we both better hide.
_ [G] _ [N] _