Sloop John B Tab

Title:  Sloop John B
Artist: Beach Boys
Author and Copyright: MississippiHans (arr.+tab.)
Capo:   2, optionally
Tempo:  Q=140
Play bass quarters with your right-hand thumb and insert eighths. Eighths are marked '+'.
The chord names above the tab lines indicate the left-hand position. Emphasize the melody notes.
Play the 6th string bass in the F chord with your left-hand thumb (thumb-fretting).
 
[Verse/Chorus]
   C                         +       +                         !               +       +
E|---------------------|-0---0-------0---0----1----|-0-------------------|-0---0-------0---0----1----|
B|---------------------|---------------------------|---------------------|---------------------------|
G|----------------0----|---------------------------|----------------0----|---------------------------|
D|------2---------2----|---------2------------2----|------2---------2----|---------2------------2----|
A|-3-------------------|-3-------------------------|-3-------------------|-3-------------------------|
E|-----------3---------|-----------------3---------|-----------3---------|-----------------3---------|
 
             !               +       +                        +       +          G         !
E|-0-------------------|-0---0-------0---0----1----|-3--------3------p1---0----|---------------------|
B|---------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------|-3-------------------|
G|----------------0----|---------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------|
D|------2---------2----|---------2------------2----|------2---------------2----|------0---------0----|
A|-3-------------------|-3-------------------------|-3------------3------------|-----------2---------|
E|-----------3---------|-----------------3---------|---------------------------|-3-------------------|
 
                 +          C         !                    +       +          F
E|------------------------|---------------------|----------------------0----|-1--------------1h3--|
B|-------------------0----|-1-------------------|------1---1------h3--------|-1-------------------|
G|-----------0--h2--------|---------------------|---------------------------|---------------------|
D|------0------------0----|------2---------2----|------2---------------2----|------3---------3----|
A|-----------x------------|-3-------------------|-3-------------------------|-----------0---------|
E|-3----------------------|-----------3---------|--------------3------------|-1-------------------|
 
                         C        +       +          G        +       +          C         !
E|-1-------------------|-0----0---0----------------|---------------------------|---------------------|
B|-1-------------------|------------------1--------|------3---3------p1---0----|-1-------------------|
G|---------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------|
D|------3---------3----|------2---------------2----|------0---------------0----|------2---------2----|
A|-----------0---------|-3-------------------------|--------------2------------|-3-------------------|
E|-1-------------------|--------------3------------|-3-------------------------|-----------3---------|
 
[Lyrics]
 
We come on the sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home
 
So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up
I wanna go home
 
The first mate he got drunk
And broke in the Captain's trunk
The constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone
Why don't you leave me alone, yeah yeah
Well I feel so broke up I wanna go home
 
 
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| !    Emphasize
| x    Dead note
| p    Pull-off
| h    Hammer-on
 
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