I Want To Go Home Sloop John B Chords
by Johnny Cash
I Want To Go Home Sloop John B by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords B, C, G7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
I Want To Go Home (aka Sloop John B)
Recorded by Johnny Cash
Written by Brian Wilson
C
We sailed on the ship John B my grandfather and me
G7
Around Nassau town we did roam
C F
Drinking all night got into a fight
C G7 C
Well I feel so homesick I wanna go home
So hoist up the John B sail see how the mainsail sets
G7
Call for the captain ashore let me go home
C F
Let me go home why don't you let me go home
C G7 C
Well I feel so homesick I wanna go home
The first mate he got drunk broke up the people's trunk
G7
Constable had to come and take him away
C F
Sheriff John Stone why don't you leave me alone
C G7 C
Well I feel so homesick I wanna go home
Then the cook he caught the fits threw out all of my grits
G7
Then he took and ate up all of my corn
C F
Let me go home why don't you let me go home
C G7 C
Well this is the worst trip since I have been born
Repeat #2