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In 1871, 28 years after its first published edition, Board and Trade listed editions of " Old Dan Tucker " in print from seven different publishers.

The song had by default fallen into the public domain.

In later decades, " Old Dan Tucker " became a standard of bluegrass and country music, with recordings by such artists as Fiddlin ' John Carson, Uncle Dave Macon, Pete Seeger, and Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers.

It is referred to in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath.

More recently, rock musician Bruce Springsteen made a recording.

Children's music collections frequently feature the song.

In Joel Chandler Harris ' Uncle Remus, it appears in the context of powerless Crawfish trying to be heard in an assembly of animals, and Harris writes, " but dey might ez well er sung Ole Dan Tucker ter a harrycane.

" In the 1935 novel Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the character Mr. Edwards sings the song as his trademark ; accordingly, the Little House on the Prairie television series from the 1970s and 1980s uses the song as a leitmotif for the character.