There's something about Lucy Gray's songs haunting Snow, like, yes The Hanging Tree, Deep in the Meadow and even The Old Therebefore, but those were about Billy Taupe —and Arlo— and the Covey as a whole. Even the footage of her singing The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird, about Billy Taupe again, remains. Meanwhile the song she did write for him, Pure as the Driven Snow, is forgotten.
The song that made him think she saw him as someone good —"someone who’d really tried to be noble in impossible circumstances", "the hero of her life"— doesn't exist anymore; because even the one who could remember songs just by hearing them once, Maude Ivory, let it die.
His song faded—just like Lucy Gray's belief in him.















