Thanks guys,
I think I have the Landers recording, those words sound right, they are just real hard to hear,and the meaning of the song can change quite a bit on a few hard to hear parts. Glad to know I'm not the only one who has had trouble with this tune. I thought it might be a common tune that everyone had a version of, but I guess not.
The banjo tuning is f#dead I'm pretty sure, a fantastic tuning I think. You can hear him pluck slowly across all the open strings at the beginning of the tune.