 The Golden Swan was a Greenwich Village spot popular with artists, intellectuals, and playwrights. Although open since the mid-1800s, it entered its greatest period of notoriety once O'Neill began frequenting the bar in the 1910s. It was there, during the composition of Anna Christie, that he found the inspiration for Kris Kristofferson's chipper, fragmentary little tune. A letter to Agnes Bolton O'Neill from Eugene O'Neill, December 2nd, 1919. Read by Matt Gatiss.