Oops!

[Peter A. McGraw]

I apologize for "introducing the subject" of Old Dan Tucker when, as I see
after catching up with some old e-mail, it's already been covered
extensively.

While I'm in mea culpa mode, I might as well correct a spelling error in an
earlier post on "a nickel a shtickel."  It should have been "Stückerl," not
*"Stückrl."

PMc

--On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:30 AM -0800 "Peter A. McGraw"
<pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> wrote:

> --On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:24 AM -0500 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>> Sam, Sam,
>> The dirty man,
>> Washed his face in a frying-pan,
>> Combed his hair with the back of a chair,
>> And danced with the toothache in the air.
>>
>> My son John is a nice old man,
>> Washed his face in a frying-pan,
>> Combed his hair with a wagon-wheel,
>> And died with the toothache in his heel.
>
> What are these verses, exactly, and the others quoted?  Some sound like
> children's rhymes, but I know part of the second version of this one as
> part of the song Old Dan Tucker.  I only remember that Old Dan Tucker
> combed his hair with a wagon wheel, and as I understood it at the time,
> died with a toothpick in his heel.  He probably washed his face in a
> frying pan, but I wouldn't swear to it this many years later.  The chorus
> was:
>
> Git out the way, Old Dan Tucker,
> (repeat 2x)
> You're too late to git your supper.
>
> Peter Mc.
>
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> Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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