text:  I mean, historical, fictionalized way to make a folk song out of a very dark event was inspiring, inspired a lot of the sort of the approach that I took to my songs. But I can't take complete credit for picking this song. The person who actually chose this song initially for me was my friend Gabriel Kahane, who arranged the song for orchestra. He first arranged it and we premiered this arrangement with the National Symphony Orchestra on the lawn of the Capitol in 2017. So I had this gig with the NSO and it was on the lawn of the Capitol and