Yeah, of course. The whole thing is - the rest is fairly historically accurate from what I know, but sometimes you have to stretch a little to make a good story.

[The Balladeer seems, perhaps, still a little unsettled, but it fades quickly as he keeps talking about something else.]

You know, half the song Charlie sings on his way to the gallows is something the real one wrote to be performed at his execution? They wouldn't do it for him back then.