When this was first posted I wondered "Why wouldn't you?" and I still don't really understand the objections.

It's the old triangle - A leaves B for C, it doesn't work out and A tries to go back to B and is rejected. It happens all the time, to all combinations of the sexes. One of the things I like about folk music is the way an apparently old song can tell a bang up to date story.

None of the characters behave particularly well, not even the husband although he is perhaps the one most to be sympathised with. But the song makes no comment, simply tells the story.