Here's a modernized and abridged version from Pete Seeger:

OLD DAN TUCKER

Now, old Dan Tucker's a fine old man,
Washed his face in a fryin' pan,
Combed his head with a wagon wheel
And died with a toothache in his heel.

CHORUS:
Get out the way, old Dan Tucker,
You're too late to get your supper,
Get out the way, old Dan Tucker,
You're too late to get your supper,

Now old Dan Tucker is come to town
Riding a billy goat — leading a hound
Hound dog bark and the billy goat jump
Landed Dan Tucker on top of the stump.

Now old Dan Tucker he got drunk
Fell in the fire and kicked up a chunk
Red hot coal got in his shoe
And oh my lawd how the ashes flew

Now old Dan Tucker is come to town
Swinging the ladies round and round
First to the right and then to the left
Then to the girl that he Loves best.

Source: American Favorite Ballads, by Pete Seeger, page 52
Oak Publications, 1961, 1970

Seeger's notes: By Dan Emmett, who also composed "Dixie." It was the big bit song of 1844 ("Oh Susanna" came in 1848) and and is another example of a minstrel tune that got taken back into folk tradition and further changed.

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