I agree with you, Dave, It's a pusillanimous ending. Who can believe that she would want to dally with a seducer who ridicued her ('maybe it's some other guy's kid'], made a false promise and then vamoosed?

There's another pusillanimous line and that is, ',,,but the green leaves are plain to be seen.'

Green leaves, eh? More like bloody, or if that's too graphic, how about 'crushed' or 'broken'?

What this song needs is a couplet that says, 'Perhaps his poor body is drowned in the deep, and any number of foolish women are left in his wake.'