My great grandfather would sing this song to my father when he was a child. Can anyone help with the words?

Some words consisted of

There was a man whose name was work
Whose wife bought him a scarlet shirt
The goat ate the shirt off the line
....
The goat was tied to the railroad track
And coughed and kicked with might and main
And coughed up the shirt and flagged the train

That is all me father can remember.