Chords for Sloop John B Strum and Melody

_ _ _ _ Hello, good morning from a lovely [A] sunny day in Newark, up near Nottingham.
And I want to give you some [F] ideas of what I would do with Slewt John B.
_ Mixing a little bit of fingerstyle playing in with it eventually.
_ [G] First concept is how I would strum it.
It's this [C] pattern. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Now with this I use quite a simple downstroke followed by a rastorado,
followed by up and down strokes where I go down with the finger, up with the thumb.
_ It's a nice wrist action, years of being a plectrum guitarist,
I mean this is quite simple for me, but I think it's a very effective [N] sound as well.
So here's the basic chords _ played in this fashion.
And notice that I do add sometimes a D minor after the F.
I think it sounds [Dm] quite cool and it's not too difficult to get to [B] from the F.
So what should I do with the [C] first verse?
_ _ _ _ _ _ Deep among the Slewt John B.,. my _ grandfather and me, _ _ Around Nassau town we [G] did roam, _ _ _ Drinking [C] all _ night, _ caught into [F] a fight, [Dm] A _ _ [C] life feels so broke [G] up, I wanna [C] go _ home. Change the chorus. So hoist up the John B. sail, _ _ see how the main sail sets, _ Call for the captain ashore, let me [G] go _ home. _ _ Let me [C] go _ home, I [F] wanna go _ home. [Dm] _ _ [C] A life feels so broke up, [G] I wanna [C] go home. _ _ _ _ _ And so on. Notice a couple of things. [G] I have put sometimes a _ G through G major 7th down [G] to the G7. _ _ [C] And as in the Michael Lyon one, I've gone from C to C7 as well. And often as you do that, _ _ again _ [B] [C] another passing note to make the strumming more interesting. [D] Now the next thing that I want to show you is how I would turn this into a fingerstyle piece by using a slightly different approach where you embed the melody line in with the song itself. And the tune is going_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ Now most of those notes are on the top string or the open [Dm] G string. And it is quite, _ _ I won't say easy, but it is not too far a step to imagine playing a C [C] so you're doing that note as your melody note but also as part of the chord. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ Now there you're playing a G chord, but instead of doing it like that where you get that as the melody note or top note, _ you're putting the little finger on the 5th fret so you can get the D as it is, [D] as the melody [G] note here. _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
Now when you get to the tune and you want the melody note there against an F chord, instead of playing that F, I do this barre chord at the 5th with the melody picked out on the 8th. _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ Now there is a PDF file of the [N] tabs of this available, so if you're interested in looking at it and seeing how this version works, then please