Note: This post contains spoilers. So if you haven’t read the books or seen the movies up to Mockingjay Part 1, you shouldn’t be viewing this. Might ruin it for you, even if you enjoy Simon and Garfunkel.
When Katniss and her compatriots arrive at District 13, they find themselves in an austere but welcoming atmosphere. After all, District 13 is the headquarters for the rebellion which is headed by their President Alma Coin. And it’s especially accommodating to escaped victors like Katniss, Beetee, Haymitch,and Finnick. I mean such people make great propaganda pieces against the Capitol. Of course, Coin ends up asking Katniss to be the Mockingjay, which she accepts with some demands. Still, while Coin might be a warm and fuzzy type nor seem fond of Katniss, initially, she at least appears all right enough for the two to get on. And as she agrees to be the Mockingjay, Katniss’s relationship with Coin seems to resemble an uneasy but working alliance. That is, at first.
For a good song about Coin’s welcoming disposition toward Katniss, I decided to go with “Mrs. Robinson” by Simon and Garfunkel.The song is famous for being featured on the 1967 film The Graduate, which is about a guy who’s fresh out college getting sexually entangled with a middle aged married woman who has all kinds of issues. In the Hunger Games version, I have Coin trying to be accommodating to Katniss after she agrees to become the Mockingjay. Well, in her own special way at least. She’s really not known for being affectionate or warm, in that matter. But compared to Snow, she seems like a reasonable authority figure, well, as far as we know.
“Here’s to You, Katniss Everdeen”
Sung by President Alma Coin
And here’s to you, Katniss Everdeen,
Peeta loves you more than you will know.
God bless you, please Katniss Everdeen.
It’s great that you’re now the Mockingjay,
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files
We’d like to help you learn to help yourself.
Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes,
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home.
And here’s to you, Katniss Everdeen,
Peeta loves you more than you will know.
God bless you, please Katniss Everdeen.
It’s great that you’re now the Mockingjay,
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
13 is the hiding place where the Capitol never goes
Though within our pantry there’s no cupcakes.
It’s a little secret just the Rebellion’s own affair.
Most of all you’ve got to hide it from old Snow.
Koo-koo-ka-choo, Katniss Everdeen,
Peeta loves you more than you will know.
God bless you, please, Katniss Everdeen.
It’s great that you’re now the Mockingjay
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Here’s a little job for you awaiting for you soon.
How about appear in District 8.
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you’ve got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio,
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
What’s that you say, Katniss Everdeen.
Jolting Joe has left and gone away,
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
The Lone Girl in a Crowd 
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