I listened to the tape while reading your Lyrins, Jon and they are very plausible. "Cry in vain" seems better than "cry and pace", although I couldn't tell which one he says just by listening.

I tried to convince myself that your "take careful stride" should be "take care or strife" but I it takes some sophistry to do it.

Brian, your version sounds like an "event song" about a guy named Purvis Harvey. Sounds like he got a prison sentence(?). There was a time I thought Pattons version was about prison because of the "some got a month, some got a year" line--one of the few I understood before Jon's work.

Can you give us some more information about R.R. MacLeod. I don't know about him either.

Murray