Guest Bedridden Barry recalls the recording of this song in the first of the two CDs dedicated to the Bahamas, in the Alan Lomax's Deep River of Song collection. Here is the text. I think this is the recording of a folk song, or traditional song, although a recent one.
Roberto

Histe Up the John B. Sails
Cleveland Simmons group, Bahamas 1935 – Deep River of Song (Coll. Alan Lomax), Rounder 11661 – 1822-2

Histe up the John B. sails
(See how) the mainsail set
Then send for the captain 'shore
Let me go home (Let me go home)
O let me go home (Let me go home)
O let me go home (Let me go back home)
I feel so break up
I want to go home

Now the captain and the mate get drunk
Then they broke up the people trunk
I goin' to send for the captain 'shore
Let me go home (Let me go home)
O let me go home
O let me go home
I feel so break up
I want to go home

Grandpa, Ma and me
Was standin'on the railroad block
Go send for the captain 'shore
Let me go home
O let me go home
O let me go home, let me go home
I feel so break up
I want to go home


Here are the notes from the booklet in the CD Bahamas 1935, Rounder, from which I've posted the lyrics.

HISTE UP THE JOHN B. SAIL
(AAFS418B2)
Sung by Cleveland Simmons group. Recorded at Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas in July, 1935.
A Bahamian ballad made world-famous by the Weavers in the early 1950's. Their Decca recording was based on a version from a collection by Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag, published in 1927. "The John B. was an old sponger boat whose crew were in the habit of getting notoriously merry, whenever they made port," say the notes to an album of Blind Blake, a popular Nassau entertainer who recorded a string band version with the Royal Victoria Calypsos in 1952 (Art ALP-4). The unaccompanied version from Cat Island presented here is perhaps the earliest recording of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpb_RLLHQ1g