Our children stay up late tonight.
Partner join me in the ring
we must skip while the others must sing
[calls a name until they join them]
Our children sit and watch the fight.
Twenty six tributes, all in a row
twenty six partners behind them go
sixty, fifty nine, fifty eight, fifty seven....
Our children sit and watch and learn.
Twenty four cannons over your head
twenty four cannons and one not dead
twenty six, twenty five, twenty four...
Their children must take their turn.
Partner partner don't you go
don't leave me standing all alone
[partner jumps out of the rope]
Our children jump ropes to the beat of the cannons.
Fifty bodies on the floor,
fifty dead and still one more,
one, two, three, four
more.
gone.
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Jeopardy: The Fourth Quarter Quell
FanfictionIt's the one hundredth year of the Hunger Games. Twice during this tenure the districts have rebelled. Twice they have been beaten down. The Capitol have chosen the perfect time and the perfect punishment; the twenty six tributes are no longer fight...
