How Game of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi approached making the "Jenny of Oldstones" song

The Atlantic

"Jenny's Song" was partly taken from the George R.R. Martin books, but co-creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff had to fill in the blanks because the song was incomplete. "The song was written into the show, so they needed this piece before they were shooting," says Djawadi. "Normally I come in after the episodes were shot. But this one, they gave me the lyrics and said, 'Write us a song" ... It’s definitely different because I already have something preexisting. I try to find the rhythm within the lyrics and put a melody to it where, when you sing the song, it just feels natural. A lot of times, you’d think the song comes first and then you put lyrics to it, but there are definitely occasions—Elton John being a very famous example—where the lyrics exist before."