Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes’ Hanging Tree Song Broken Down By Line (& How It Compares To The Hunger Games)

One of the greater revelations of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the origin of “The Hanging Tree Song” that Katniss sang in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—but what do the lyrics really mean? Of course, the answer to this question is subjective since every person is bound to interpret Lucy Gray’s words in their own way. In the Hunger Games and the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes books, we see the song broken down from the perspective of two characters—Katniss Everdeen and Coriolanus Snow. As two drastically different people, their thoughts on the rebellious “Hanging Tree” differed significantly.