"[1] The album includes a cover of "I'll Be Here in the Morning" by Townes Van Zandt who died earlier that same year.

Shindell composed the title song in 1996 for Joan Baez,[4] who later included it on her Gone From Danger album.

It was also covered by Fairport Convention on their 2011 CD Festival Bell and Show of Hands on their 2012 album Wake the Union.

The song is written from the perspective of a Civil War widow.

All songs by Richard Shindell except where noted Musicians: Production