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Johnm:
Could you post an .mp3 of the tune, Alex? I don't have the Tefteller Calendar it's on and am not likely to get it. That last line of verse two seems a bit funny.
All best,
Johnm

waxwing:
Relistening, in 3.3 I hear a slight change and a word dropped, which was probably a typo:

3.3 Send me on to penitentar' and she's out now making a spiel(sp)

2.3 is relatively clear and sounds pretty spot on to me. Except maybe a who'd instead of 'who', but that is very faint and pretty debatable. My (?) had to do more with meaning of what seems a dialectic idiom.

Wax

Johnm:
I agree with the "who'd" you suggested as a possibility for 2.3, waxwing. I think the sense of the line may be that the opening "All out" refers to being out in the big world, the "fool" being Smith himself, the "friend" being Smith's woman companion, who would join him out on the road. "By myself" in this context means "by me" rather than "alone", I think. 

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