"We Laughed" is a three-track single by English musician Billy Bragg as part of the Rosetta Life project.

[1] For the three songs on the single, Bragg collaborated with three patients of Trimar Hospice in Weymouth, who each wrote lyrics based on their illness and feelings.

The "We Laughed" single was created through the Rosetta Life organisation, which collaborates with professional artists, enabling people with life-threatening illnesses to express themselves using various types of creative outlets, including writing, music, drama and dance.

The three tracks developed from Bragg's songwriting workshops at Weymouth's Trimar Hospice in February–March 2005.

After a couple of weeks of talking about the process of songwriting and a few singalongs, the 'Friday Girls' began opening up to the idea of writing a song.

The additional tracks feature lyrics written by two of the 'Friday Girls', Lisa Payne and Veronica Barfoot.

"[3] In a 2005 BBC article based on the song, Bragg spoke of meeting the patients who co-wrote the tracks for the single: "It was a great privilege actually to be able to work with them, to sit with them and talk with them and try and get their feelings and thoughts down on paper.

A few years ago I worked on a record called "We Laughed" with some incredible women in a hospice.

For the Rosetta Requiem website, Edgington described the photograph that was the inspiration of the song: "The picture is a legacy for Jess, a reminder to laugh with her children.

The prospect of me seeing them were small so I wanted us captured in a pose that they could aspire to and that Jess would remember fondly.

I also wanted her children to have a complete understanding of who I was - not a harsh stern grand parent but one that was fun and would love them and be good to know so We Laughed, relaxed and free.

"[13] Speaking on writing the lyrics, Edgington said: "I was sceptical at first as I thought that so many other things needed major attention - such as finding some one who would look after my daughter and be her guardian after I had gone.

I had heard of Billy Bragg but I didn’t know what he'd be like to work with, I just knew him from seeing him do political stuff on the television.

I knew how I felt about my illness and he helped me express it, he gave me ideas about ways of turning my experience into a song.

It expressed what I felt and the upbeat music suited the words and the way I've been tackling the illness.

For the Rosetta Requiem website, Barfoot commented: "I was asked if I would like to go the Trimar Hospice Day Care every Friday.

I was encouraged to write a song as part of the Rosetta Life project with Billy Bragg.