Hi, I have been trying to figure out this short verse since I got this early 1940s version
(Lomax Portraits CD) and here's what I have come up with :

'Old Kimball, gave me money

("Noal Massey" or "no musket")... he bet more

Old Kimball... ("were murdered" (sounds like "your murdrer"

...Through the keyhole in the door


Hope the above is readable.

Texas Gladden (his sister) had this Cuckoo version of Old Kimball
on her Portraits CD, but this Hobart verse is left out.

The words:

"Old Kimball gave (or 'give') me money

... he bet more "

    "Through the keyhole in the door"

are from the notes to the record.

A similar
Banjo Hangout thread from 2009 exists :

O kim'll gimme money (??)
No mussie (??)
He been hold (??)
He'll (????) your mother (???)
through the keyhole in the door


Here is the short clip

20 seconds or so.

Thanks in advance.