I Want To Go Home

We sailed on the ship John b
My grandfather and me around
Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night, got into a fight
Well, I feel so homesick I want to
Go home

So hoist up the John B sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home let me go
Home, why don't you let me
Go home? well, I feel so homesick
I want to go home

The first mate, he got drunk
Broke up the people's trunk
Constable had to come and
Take him away sheriff John Stone
Why don't you leave me alone
Well, I so hoist up the John B sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home let me go
Home, why don't you let me

Go home? well, I feel so homesick
I want to go home feel so homesick
I wanted to go home then the cook
He caught the fits, threw out all of
My grits then he took and ate up
All of my corn let me go home
Why don't you let me go home
Well, this is the worst trip since
I have been born

So hoist up the John B sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home let me go
Home, why don't you let me
Go home? well, I feel so homesick
I want to go home