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Thursday

Beach Boys the Sloop John B

Here's a favorite old song. I first learned this song in choir when I was in grade school. Now that I've given you a clue to my age we'll leave it at that. Yes, that's right we were singing about the drunks in this song in grade school, and I'm not so sure the schools would allow that these days. Or would they? None the less here are the lyrics in case you would like to hop on into your imaginary Sloop John B.

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