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Thread #32772 Message #3929546
Posted By: Dave Rado
06-Jun-18 - 07:32 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Sloop John B
Subject: RE: Origin: Sloop John B
PS - Judging from the Bahamian Letting Agent's ad here, the story that I posted about the Sloop John B being named after its Welsh captain, John Bethel, does appear to be commonly accepted as fact in the Bahamas - although confusingly, the ad is about a 19th century house which it says was built by John Bethel - which seems to scupper the idea that Bethel went to the Bahamas in 1647 or that the song could date from that long ago.