Who told Katniss the writer/singer of The Hanging Tree in the Hunger Games film/book? Was it her father? In the newest Hunger Games film/book, was Lucy Gray Baird the one who wrote The Hanging Tree?
I believe so. Coriolanus Snow thought that the song was written for Billy Taupe, her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her with the Mayor's daughter but he realized that the song was written for him.
Katniss' father I believe told her the song but didn't tell her who wrote it. He did, however, told her not to sing the song anymore, as Commander Hoff had told Lucy Gray Baird not to sing it anymore as well.
Yes, according to the movie, Lucy was inspired to create The Hanging Tree after her, Snow and Sejanus Plinth were present at Arlo Chance's hanging after he accidentally killed three people in the coal mining production.
