I don't believe I've ever heard the song all the way through before. I've only heard snippets on old TV shows, never here out in the wild. It's not a song that ever caught on here. We have Bluegrass locally (my Dear Old Dad was an acquaintance of Ralph Stanly from over in Dickenson County, and I grew up in the shadow of Clinch Mountain, as in "Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys"), which developed, I believe, from old Irish and Scottish ballads, but songs like "Old Dan Tucker" were more Minstrel songs, usually heard out in the flatlands rather than up here in the hills and hollers.
From my youth, I recall songs like "froggy went a-courtin' ", "Groundhog", "The Preacher and the Bear", "Barbary Allen", "Sam Johnson", etc. Never heard "Old Dan Tucker" until I was a teenager so far as I can recall, and even then it was a "furriner" song from the Flatlanders.
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From my youth, I recall songs like "froggy went a-courtin' ", "Groundhog", "The Preacher and the Bear", "Barbary Allen", "Sam Johnson", etc. Never heard "Old Dan Tucker" until I was a teenager so far as I can recall, and even then it was a "furriner" song from the Flatlanders.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake