From George Simpson, Dundee, Scotland

Sources: The James Madison Carpenter Collection AFC 1972/001 Cylinder 077 03:53; Disc sides 159 03:29; 160 00:00; MS p 00377.

I supplied the last verse.

1. Come all you seamen bold of every clime
   Pay attention to this song of mine
   Daniel Donnelly was our hero’s name
   In the packet ship New World of Fame
   A sailorman of courage bold
   He did prove himself so I’ve been told
   Many the tar that night afloat
   remembers how Donnelly hung the goat.
2. From information I’ve received
   They had a goat on board, I believe
   As we were sailing on the sea
   In the coil of the halyards the goat lay asleep
   Donnally at the halyards he stood by
   When loudly the chief mate he did cry,
   Let go your halyards, and up they flew
   Hell to me soul an the goat wint too.
3. The poor goat felt an awful shock
   When its paw got jammed in the halyard block
   Only Donnelly went to see
   What kept the rope from running free
   He grabbed the poor goat by the paw
   And across’t his knife did quickly draw
   The poor goat fell down the deck
   And damn near broke Spud Murphy’s neck.
4. The poor old goat on the deck did lay
   And our captain to our cook did say
   Go fetch the beast without delay
   For I fancy some goat stew today
   Our captain being both stout and true
   He shared the smell with all the crew
   We’ll ne’er forget that night afloat
   When Daniel Donnelly hung the goat.