‘Ben Franklin's Song’

Buoyed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Decemberists turn a Hamilton outtake into a knockout.

Warning: This edition of Slayed by Voices has cursing. More precisely, it has the same curse word, over and over again.

Do you care? Probably not. But I bring it up because in the 20 years that I’ve written online, since the very beginning of Dodger Thoughts, this is the first time I’ve ever published anything with a word I’ve tried telling my kids to a…