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starry-eyed-psychopomp · 5 months

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WHO was going to tell me that the Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird is set to the tune of Streets of Laredo/The Unfortunate Rake??!?!!? And it’s WRITTEN LIKE THAT IN THE BOOK?!?!???!

Like the fact that it’s supposed to be her lamenting her own impending death?? And she chose the most famous folk song about someone lamenting their impending death??? Hello?!??

#this fuckin book makes my special interests go WILD #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #folk music #it’s the same tune! sing it to streets of Laredo it FITS #lucy gray baird #tbosas #babe wake up new unfortunate rake just dropped #it’s only been a hundred years

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