In the prequel novel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” Lucy Gray Baird writes and composes this song in reference to the hanging of Arlo Chance. Arlo set off an explosion in the mines of District 12 in an attempt to sabotage the production of coal that ultimately ended up killing three men.
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[Verse 1]
Are you, are you comin' to the tree?
Where they strung up a man they say murdered three
[Refrain]
Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hangin’ tree
[Verse 2]
Are you, are you comin' to the tree?
Where the dead man called out for his love to flee
[Refrain]
Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hangin' tree
[Verse 3]
Are you, are you comin’ to the tree?
Where I told you to run so we'd both bе free
[Refrain]
Strange things did happen herе, no stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hangin' tree
[Verse 4]
Are you, are you comin' to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope side by side with me
[Refrain]
Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hangin' tree
The Hanging Tree was written by Suzanne Collins & Wesley Schultz.
The Hanging Tree was produced by Dave Cobb.
Rachel-zegler released The Hanging Tree on Fri Oct 20 2023.