Daniel Decatur Emmett
Old Dan Tucker's a fine old man
Washed his face in a frying pan
Combed his hair with a wagon wheel
Died of toothache in his heel
Get out the way for old Dan Tucker
He's too late to get his supper
Pot's on the fire and dinner's cooking
But Old Dan Tucker just stand there lookin'
Old Dan Tucker he come to town
Riding on a billygoat, leading a hound
Hound dog bark and the billygoat jump
Sent Ol' Dan Tucker right straddle of a stump
Get out the way for old Dan Tucker
He's too late to get his supper
Supper's over and dishes washed
Nothing left but a piece of squash
Old Dan Tucker, he got drunk
Fell in the fire and he kicked up a chunk
Red hot coal got in his shoe
Oh my Lawdy how the ashes flew
Old Dan Tucker, he come to town
Swinging the ladies round and round
First to the right and then to the left
And then to the gal that he loved best
I come to town the other night
To hear the noise and see the fight
Watchman he was running around
Cryin' Old Dan Tucker's come to town
Ol' Dan and me we did fall out
An' what do you reckon it was about?
He stepped on my corn, I kicked him on the shin
An' that's the way this row begin
Ol' Dan Tucker clumb a tree
His Lord and Master for to see
The limb it broke and Dan got a fall
Never got to see his Lord at all
Ol' Dan Tucker went to the mill
To get some meal to put in the swill
The miller swore by the point of his knife
He never seed such a man in his life
Dan Tucker begun in early life
To play the banjo and the fife
He'd play the boys and gals to sleep
And then into some bunk he'd creep