Abe Lincoln was a Good Old Man

Here's one sent in by Jason from Maryland, who learned it in the early 80s:

Abe Lincoln was a good old man
jumped out the window with his dick in his hand
said "scuse me, ladies, gotta do my duty
drop your drawers and give me some booty."

This seems to have spread around a lot - throwing Abe Lincoln into a rhyme almost always makes it funnier.

Some other similar Lincoln rhymes I've seen go

Abe Lincoln was a good old man
washed his face in a frying pan

and

Abe Lincoln was a good old soul
washed his face in a toilet bowl

I wouldn't presume to guess how old this is; folklorists probably would have left it out of their books up until the 1960s (before then, even Iona Opie, who was no prude, was referring to "unprintable" rhymes). But all of these rhymes sound like variations (in some cases changing only the name) of "Old Dan Tucker," one of the solid gold top hit songs of the 1830s:

Old Dan Tucker was a good old man
washed his face in a frying pan
combed his hair with a wagon wheel
born with a toothache in his heel


Bruce Springsteen recorded a rollicking, spirited version of the song on his wonderful We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions album. I assume that there were dirty verses going around by, say, the 1840s, though the word "booty" as a synonym for sex only goes back to about the 1920s. When Abe Lincoln started turning up in the song is probably anyone's guess; the idea probably came to some kid who heard the song at camp and spread from there. I would say that by the 1980s, most of the kids singing the lines above had never heard "Old Dan Tucker."

Which versions did you hear, and when?