You're too late to get your supper

From the liner notes of Bruce Springsteen's joyously up We Shall Overcome -- The Seeger Sessions:

An antique fiddle tune, often used for square dances, made famous around 1843 when Dan Emmett, one of the greatest early minstrel singers, wrote a version of these lyrics for his group, the Virginia Minstrels.

Old Dan Tucker

Old Dan Tucker was a fine old man
Washed his face with a fryin' pan
Combed his hair with a wagon wheel
And died with a toothache in his heel

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

Old Dan Tucker come to town
Riding a billy goat, leading a hound
The hound dog barked and billy goat
jumped
And landed old Tucker on a stump

chorus

Old Dan Tucker got drunk and fell
In the fire and kicked up holy hell
A red-hot coal got in his shoe
An oh my Lord the ashes flew

chorus

Now Old Dan Tucker came to town
Swinging them ladies all round
First to the right then to the left
Then to the gal that he loved best

chorus

repeat


Old Dan. Did he have any teeth not in his heel? Why the jostling in the soup queue? Is that what it was? I feel sorry for him. So he'd had a few. The man needed to eat for Christ's sake (probably). But he had a gal, I suppose, even if she only existed in the wooden world of square dance patter.