I just finished a play called Picnic by William Inge, in Hollywood. One of our players was a folk singer. During the intermission she sang this song, and two other very sad Appalachian folk songs.

Since the play is about a group of "old maid school teachers" in Kansas, (whose lives get turned upside down by the young stud that drifts into town and then leaves again with a young girl), it seemed like a very fitting song for the play.