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00:00Behind the time, but here it is.
00:15Old Dan Tucker's a fine old man, washed his face in a frying pan,
00:19combed his hair with a wagon wheel, dyed with a toothache in his heel.
00:22Get out the way, old Dan Tucker, you're too late to get your supper.
00:26Get out the way, old Dan Tucker, you're too late to get your supper.
00:45Old Dan Tucker, come to town, swinging the ladies round and round,
00:49first to the right and then to the left and then to the gal that he loves best.
00:52Get out the way, old Dan Tucker, you're too late to get your supper.
00:55Get out the way, old Dan Tucker, you're too late to get your supper.
01:14Old Dan Tucker, he got drunk, fell in the fire and he kicked up a chunk.
01:17Red hot coal got in his shoe and oh my lord, all the ashes flew.
01:21Get out the way, old Dan Tucker, you're too late to get your supper.
01:24Get out the way, old Dan Tucker, you're too late to get your supper.
01:51Well, I hope the song doesn't ever die out.
01:55I hope it doesn't ever become unpopular.
01:59Of course, that's only one half of the story, though.
02:04The Greeks had a word for it, in a way.
02:06They said that you've got to have comedy and tragedy.
02:09You're going to get the whole truth of the situation.
02:11They used to...
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