The song was banned by Commander Hoff, who considered it rebellious. It was one of many songs composed by Lucy Gray Baird, and it was written about the execution of Arlo Chance. "The Hanging Tree" has a brief backstory in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. After the propo aired, rebels took it up as a protest song as they lew up hydroelectric dam, causing a massive power outage in the Capitol that allowed rebel forces to carry out a rescue mission. In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, the song was surreptitiously recorded for a propo, and Plutarch Heavensbee had the the words changed from "necklace of rope" to "necklace of hope". Katniss would not sing the song again for another ten years, when she sang it for Pollux. Everdeen forbid them from singing it because of the song's morbid and rebellious lyrics. " The Hanging Tree" was a song Katniss learned from her father when she was young, but Mrs. Coriolanus Snow also listens to the song and finds it soothing, until mockingjays pick up the melody, as he finds them disturbing. In The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Lucy Gray Baird sings this song to Maude Ivory, having sung it to her in the past when she had croup. Katniss also found herself musing on the words of this song many years later as she watched her own children play in the Meadow in District 12. The words are easy, soothing, and calming. At first, Katniss did not know what to sing, but then remembered a lullaby she would sing to her sister Prim when she was ill. Because of her love of music, Rue's last request was to hear Katniss sing. " Deep in the Meadow" (also known as " Rue's Lullaby") is a song sung by Katniss to Rue as the latter was nearing death ( Marvel had speared her in the stomach). 2 Featured songs in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesįeatured songs in the trilogy "Deep in the Meadow".
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