Not my favorite Beach Boys song - far prefer Sloop John B from Pet Sounds:
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
Folk song from the Bahamas, popularized by poet Carl Sandburg. BBs’ version is very similar to the Kingston Trio’s in ‘58.
‘Barbara Ann’ was pretty much the same arrangement as the Regents in ‘61.
Some people can just own songs regardless of the song’s origin.