Les- and would you re-write all the great classics so that they had happy endings?

This song is a report of something that probably happened, and similar things occur today. It would be received well by an audience because they could imagine it happening, so it would be a good song to sing.

As has been said many times above, singing a song doesn't mean the singer agrees with what happens in the song!

I guess we will go round and round the same points...
It sounds from your latest post that you haven't taken anything from the replies you have got to your original question.