Dan Tucker
(Alternately: Old Dan Tucker, Ole Dan Tucker)

For information on this song as part of the blackface minstrel tradition, please see
its page in The Juba Project's Minstrelsy Database.

For an alternate interpretation of this song, see The Mid-Atlantic Minstrel Show -- another item in this project's 'Artists Respond to Juba' section.

Credits

Art Babayants, piano; Alison Jutzi, vocals; Dennis Patrick, sound technician.

Image c. British Library, all rights reserved. Further reproduction is prohibited

Lyrics

Verse 1
Dan Tucker lib’d in a sug shaky hut,
As tight as a maggot in a mouldy nut,
He jump’d into bed, but him legs so long,
Did for chickens farder for to roost upon:

Verse 2
Old hen, fat pig, look berry sly,
When dey sees Dan Tucker cumin by,
Old Dan Tucker has cum to sup,
Goose, fowl, fat pig to swallow up:

Verse 3
Dey all run away but de lilla pig,
Cotch him by de leff side ob his wig;
Neber said grace de ole pig squall,
Didnt like de manners ob Ole Dan at all;

Verse 4
Oh de pig pull back wid all his might,
Dan suck’d him down till out ob sight
When de pig war down as you’ll suppose,
As he could not see why he broke his nose;

Verse 5
Dan Tucker, a nice man ob course,
Upon dis plan he rode a horse,
If he went too fast along de hill,
He wop him for goin an standin still;

Verse 6
An ole nigg run from Chippewa
A rummer nigg you neber saw,
All hind before he button him coat,
And to tie him shoes jump down him troat;

Chorus
Hey out ob de way, Ole Dan Tucker
you’re too late to cum for supper
Out ob de way, Ole Dan Tucker
you’re too late to cum for supper.

Publication Information

Published by B. Williams, II. Paternoster Row, & 170 Gt. Dovor Rd., London.

British Library Shelf Number: H.2342