It has been covered by The Three Peppers and by King Perry & His Pied Pipers (1951) in a hardly recognizable clean version.

The cartoonist Robert Crumb quoted the song in his comic strip album Zap Comix, no.

"The Duck's Yas-Yas-Ya" is also referenced on Captain Beefheart's album Trout Mask Replica (1969), on the track "Old Fart at Play", in which Beefheart sings, "Momma licked 'er lips like a cat, pecked the ground like a rooster, pivoted like a duck", mentioning all three protagonists from the most famous line of the blues song.

Norman's version opens with the lyrics "Mama killed a chicken, thought it was a duck, she put it on the table with its legs sticking up, Papa broke his glasses, when he fell down drunk, tried to drown the kitty-cat, turned out to be a skunk, ya gotta watch what you're doing."

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion quoted the first three lines of the song in "Chicken Dog," on the album Now I Got Worry, sung by Rufus Thomas.