I had the same tape as child. I know all the lyrics but not where to find it:

In eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the world was stunned to see
A woman who wrote for newspaper set out upon the sea.
For Nellie Bly they all turned out and shouted “Hip hooray!”
She said she'd travel around the world in less than eighty days.

CHORUS: Nellie Bly, Nellie, don't you roam.
Nellie Bly, don't you women belong at home?
But Nellie Bly, you showed us all; Nellie, you did amaze.
You were the first around the earth in less than eighty days.

She set sail from New York City for England’s foggy shore.
Her ship, Augusta Victoria hit wind and rain and more.
The weather took a nasty turn. The crew was deathly ill.
Nellie Bly danced on the decks. They say she's dancing still. CHORUS

Nell met Jules Verne in Gallie, France. He said he thought it fine
For woman to be the first to make the trip in such a time.
"My book Around the World in Eighty Days was fantasy.
Nellie Bly, you make my dreams become reality". CHORUS

From Italy to India, from Hong Kong to Japan,
Nell went faster round the world then ever did a man.
Not Christopher Columbus, Sir Francis Drake, nor Captain Cook
Ever dream that Nellie Bly would join their record books. CHORUS

She sailed across the Pacific till she hit the USA,
Then on to New York City on the seventy-second day.
Around the world in eighty days, they said a man could do.
Nellie Bly was not a man. She did it in seventy-two. CHORUS