A sloop (from dutch sloep, in turn from french chaloupe) is a sailing boat with a single mast and a fore-and-aft rig. a sloop has only one head-sail ; if a vessel has two or more head-sails, the term cutter is used, and its mast may be set further aft than on a sloop.. The john b. was an old sponger boat - presumably a sloop - whose crew were in the habit of getting notoriously merry whenever they made port. it was wrecked and sunk at governor's harbour in eleuthera, the bahamas, in about 1900.. Music video by the beach boys performing sloop john b (promotional video) (2006 digital remaster)..
"sloop john b" was mixed down twice, while all the other songs on the album had at most one mix-down. in paul williams' outlaw blues , david marks said that "sloop john b" was made before all the other pet sounds songs, and was an attempt to give the beach boys a more masculine, virile image.. The narrative of "sloop john b" is a straightforward one, chronicling the homesickness of a seaman trapped on a boat journey fraught with bad luck. the melody is similarly forlorn but is tinged with a catchy, singalong quality that made it a natural for folk groups.. Sloop john b - chords, lyrics and origins. origins. in one sense, sloop john b is very easy to play - there are only four chords - but, like many songs, it's hard to make a really good job of it. a sloop is a small boat, about 16 feet long, typically with a crew of four or five..
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