Gene,

That's definitely a good proposition. A better guess than I had, but I'm not sure I'm totally convinced.

After listening again more closely I'd like to suggest that the first one is maybe "When the Yanks had come(d) he lost his nerve"? My new theory on the second one is that Stoneman says "the botch had left the train" as a cleaner way of saying "the bitch had left the train."



Thanks for that, Jonathan. For a while I tried to make sense of the word "voction" but just decided it was a nonsense word. The way Anderson used it makes me feel like it could be a corruption of "gumption" or perhaps another word, but it's hard to be certain. I can definitely hear the similarities to all of those songs.