"The John B. Sails" is a Bahamian folk song from Nassau. A transcription by Richard Le Gallienne was published with five verses and the chorus published in his article “Coral Islands and Mangrove-Trees” in the December 1916 issue of Harper’s Monthly Magazine and the first three verses and chorus were included in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag in 1927. Since the early 1950s there have been many recordings; variant titles include "I Want to Go Home", "Wreck of the John B", and most famously, "Sloop John B". It has been recorded by:     Blind Blake ("John B. Sails")     The Kingston Trio ("The Wreck of the John B")     Johnny Cash ("I Want To Go Home")     Jimmie Rodgers ("Wreck of the John B")     The Brothers Four ("The John B. Sails")     The Beach Boys ("Sloop John B")     Joseph Spence ("Sloop John B")     and a long list of others. I learned it in 1958 from The Kingston Trio.