Famously this was well-known and about Hartlepool in the UK. There are postcards with the words. I have one somewhere. The usual title is 'The Fishermen hung the Monkey'. However I have a vague memory that the song was earlier than the Hartlepool connection and had been applied in some form to other places. Like the song Brian O'Lynn which was first a skit on Scots (Tom-a-Lin) and then switched to an Irishman about 1800, this story was a skit on several other places/races.