I have posted Uncle Dave Macon's version to the Uncle Dave lyrics thread - corrections warmly welcomed:

Click for Uncle Dave's version

The earliest oldtimey recording of this was by Fiddlin' John Carson. Clearly, Carson thought Dan Tucker was white. For an interesting discussion of this point, and the song's history, see Gene Wiggins 'Fiddlin' Georgia Crazy: Fiddlin' John Carson, His Real World and the World of His Songs' Uni Illinois Press 1987, pp 207-208.

Here is what I can decipher of Fiddlin' John's rendition - the reissue recording sound is shouse:

OLD DAN TUCKER

Old Dan Tucker was a fine old feller
But he would play cards with a nigger in the cellar

Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
You come too late to get your supper

Sheep shell corn by the rattle of the horn
Shave old folks when the water gets warm

Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
You come too late to get your supper

[Held ?] that sow all by the tail
Sow did squeal and the pigs did squall
But all Dan Tucker just paid for it all

Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
You come too late to get your supper

Old Dan Tucker was fine old man
He washed his face in the frying pan
Combed his hair with a wagon wheel
Died with a toothache in his heel

Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
You come too late to get your supper

Old Dan Tucker, he went to town, and he got drunk
Fell in the fire and he kicked up a chunk
Charcoal poured in his shoe
Great God Almighty how the ?   fell through

Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
Out of the way, Old Dan Tucker
You come too late to get your supper

Source: transcription of Fiddlin' John Carson 'Old Dan Tucker' recorded on 18 December 1924 in NYC and issued as OK 40263 in February 1925. Reissued on Fiddlin' John Carson 'Complete Recorded Works Vol II' Document DOCD-8016.

--Stewie.