Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 9/19/2006 10:28:00 AM Author: Beverly Sharpe (madamopal@aol.com) Subject: My version of the goat song from camp in early 1960s Honest to goodness I was taught this song at camp in the Catskills back in the early 1960's. 1962 I think for sure. Was this a song for a 10 year old back then? There was a man (there was a man) Names Nathan Stone (named Nathan Stone) He had a goat (He had a goat) That he called his own (that he called his own) One day this goat (one day this goat) Got to feeling fine (got to feeling fine) Ate 6 red shirts (ate 6 red shirts) Right off the line (right off the line) When Nathan saw (when Nathan saw) What the goat had done (what the goat had done) he said now goat (He said now goat) Your time has come (your time has come) so he took him down (so he took him down) to the railroad tracks (to the railroad tracks) and tied him there (and tied him there) so he'd never come back (so he'd never come back) now the train came along (now the train came along) and the whistle blew (and the whistle blew) that poor old goat (that poor old goat) knew his time was through (knew his time was through) then the engineer stopped (then the engineer stopped) got out to see (got out to see) what this strange site (what this strange site) on the tracks could be (on the tracks could be) and when he saw (and when he saw) it was a goat (it was a goat) he took out his knife (he took out his knife) and slit his throat (and slit his throat) now the poor old goat (now the poor old goat) was surely dead (was surely dead) he went to heaven (he went to heaven) without a head (wihtout a head) when he got there (when he got there) St. Peter said (St. Peter said) My poor old goat (my poor old goat) where is your head? (where is your head?) and the goat replied (and the goat replied) I cannot tell (I cannot tell) for all I know (for all I know) It went to da de da de da de da de da de da de upmp! (It went to da de da de da de da de da de da de upmp!) Name: Email: Subject

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