“Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man they say murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where the dead man called out for his love to flee.
Strange…
Had to pause for a moment once I read this in the book. I basically had the same reaction as Katniss described. I thought it was about a guy asking for his lover to meet him and then as I progressed through the stanzas, I realized what it was really about. Chills followed shortly after.
I love The Hunger Games trilogy. So good.