Lyr. Add: OLD DAN TUCKER (original)
Daniel D. Emmett

I come to town de udder night,
I hear de noise den saw de sight,
De watchmen dey were runnin' roun',
Cryin' Old Dan Tucker's come to town,
Git out ob de way! [banjo]
Git out ob de way! [banjo]
Git out ob de way old Dan Tucker,
Your to late to come to your supper.

Tucker is a nice old man,
He used to ride our darby ram,
He sent him whizzin' down de hill,
If he hadn't got up- he'd laid dar still.
Git out ob de way, etc.

Sheep an' de hog walkin' in de pastur
Sheep sez "hog can't ye go a little faster?
Hush! hush honey! hear de wolf howlin'!
Ah, ah, de Lawd- ole bull dog growlin',
Git out ob de way, etc.

Jaybird in de martin's nest,
To sabe he soul he got no rest,
Ole Tucker run in de fox's den
Ou come de young ones- nine or ten.
Git, etc.

Tucker on de woodpile- can't count 'lebben
Put in a fedder bed- him gwine to hebben,
His nose so flat, his face so full,
De top ob his head like a bag ob wool,
Git etc.

Tucker went round hicory steeple,
Dar he met some colored people,
Some was black, an' some was blacker,
Some was de color ob brown tobacur.
Git etc.

High-hold on de holler tree,
He poke his bill in for to see,
De lizzard cotch 'im by de snout,
He call old Tucker to pull 'im out.
Git etc.

Tucker, he had cash a-plenty,
Dressed to death- his old trunck empty,
To kiss de gals he thot was useless,
'Cept he kissed wid a sway-back-looseness.
Git etc.

Here's my razor in good order,
Magnum Bonum- jis hab bought 'er,
Sheep shell de oats, old Tucker shell de corn
I'll shabe you all when de water gits warm.
Git etc.

I went to meetin' de udder day,
To hear old Tucker preach an' pray,
Dey all got drunk, but me alone,
I make ole Tucker- walk jaw-bone,
Git out ob de way, [banjo]
Git out ob de way, [banjo]
Git out ob de way you harden'd sinner,
Your too late to come to your dinner.

"Composed by Dan D. Emmet, and sung by him with unbounded applause in Howe's Amphitheatre of the Republic, New York." Page 622 in "Marsh's Selection, or Singing For the Million, Containing the Choicest and Best Collection of Admired Patriotic, Comic, Irish, Negro, Temperance, and Sentimental Songs Ever Embodied in One Work." Three volumes in one, New York, Richard Marsh, 374 Pearl Street, 1854. Reproduced in Newman I. White, 1928, American Negro Folk Songs, pp. 446-447 (1965 reprint).
Some verses borrowed from Negro song, some Negro folk song verses were borrowed from Emmett. A complete version of a minstrel song. Note: Spelling preserved.
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