The Hanging Tree (Inference)

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 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 I told you to run, so we'd both be free

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

Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.

Strange things did happen here,

No stranger would it be,

If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.

In the last book of the Hunger Games Trilogy, "Mockingjay", Katniss sings a song that her father taught her, when he was still alive. Katniss doesn't know what the song means, but she tells us that it originated from the hills of District 12, during the olden times. Katniss's father would sing it for her and Prim. They would all make matching necklaces of rope for the song. But Mrs. Everdeen would always freak out when that song was sung. She would also snatch the necklaces away from them. Suddenly, the song was forbidden by her family. It provided them with fear. Katniss states that she began to understand the song when she started getting older, and after her father's death. The song is about a couple who were in love. The girl killed her boyfriend by hanging him on a tree. Then, the girl was guilty. The man's corpse told her to run away and hide. 

I think the story can expand. I think the couple was in the woods, trying escape a crime they committed inside the District. They secretly go off into the woods, leaving the District, which is a crime. As they struggled to stay alive in the woods, the girl goes insane and decides to keep all the surviving resources for herself. So when her boyfriend falls asleep, she decides to kill him with a rope. She ties the rope to a tree and puts her boyfriend's neck inside the loop. There and then, she hangs him to his death. The corpse leaves herself to be frightened and scared. Then she runs off to find a tribe of other runaways. There, she gives birth to children and comes up with song, when her boyfriend haunts her dreams. She becomes depressed and sick for the rest of her life, and her kids carried out the song. And Katniss's father came from the runaway tribe, and he knew the song. The runaway tribe is now part of District 13.