Why Lucy Gray’s ‘The Hanging Tree’ Song Sounds So Different To Katniss’

Lucy Gray’s version of “The Hanging Tree” has been released in preparation of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and it sounds remarkably different to Katniss’ version in The Hunger Games. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel to The Hunger Games, set 64 years before as it focuses on the 10th Hunger Games. TBSOS focuses on Coriolanus Snow as a young mentor and his District 12 mentee Lucy Gray Baird. Snow and Lucy Gray fall in love throughout their mentorship, the Games, and Snow’s position in District 12 afterward, but his power-hungry nature battles with his love.