It was generous of you to transcribe the song, Jim, but if you read my original post again, you'll see that there are really only two words I can't be sure of in the song.

For "[something] for a week now," you have speculated on "plying" or "planing." I've speculated on words, too, but I'm really no closer to what Pharis Patenaude wrote now than I was a few days ago.

For "[something] on the engine", you have written "One on the engine." I've considered that. You could be right. But it sounds as much like "Born on the engine" too, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But then, "Blackbird" doesn't make any obvious sense, either. I don't understand what "Roll back/Like an oxblood" means either.

Heck, I don't care. I've been playing this song a gazillion times a day lately and my poor neighbours have to listen to me singing.

Outlaw Social and The Breakmen, a bluegrassy roots group from Vancouver, are doing a double bill in Victoria tomorrow night. I didn't even have to die to enter musical heaven.