Hunger Games Holiday Spoof Song

HUNGER GAMES HOLIDAY SONG

by Carolee Dean

(Sung to CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE)

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Rabbits roasting on an open fire.

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Tributes shooting from the rear.

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Mockingjays singing songs like a choir.

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Kids dressed up in combat gear. 

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Everybody knows some arrows and a few berries,

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are what you need to win this fight.

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But Mutant mutts with their eyes all aglow,

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make it hard to sleep tonight.

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You hope that medicine and soup is on its way,

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and that Haymitch didn't drink the sponsors pay.

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Though probably he's passed out now and sleeping,

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This happens every time that there’s a reaping

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And so I'm offering this simple tale,

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about a bunch of kids with bad behavior.

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Though its been said many times many ways,

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“May the odds be ever in your favor.”

I was cleaning out some old files and found this spoof on the young adult novel, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins that I wrote, complete with guitar chords) for a SCBWI (Society of Chidren's Book Writers and Illustrators) holiday party a few years back. We held the  party at Alamosa Books in Albuquerque, NM. It's one of my all time favorite independent bookstores. It has closed since then but the song brings back fond memories of all of my dear SCBWI-New Mexico friends. Does anyone remember being there? Stay tuned next week for more holiday spoofs.