Sure, Jeff, a woman could sing it, just as Joan Baez could sing "I Am a Rake and a Rambling Boy," but it's still a guy thing, a song from the point of view of a man about to be hung, thinking of home, his parents, and his girlfriend (whom he may have killed). A man could also sing "Stand by Your Man," but he would sound hypocritical and self-serving, if sung as if to his own woman, and patronizing and sexist if sung as a father or uncle or priest or other male advisor, or it could be sung satirically, like Kinky Friedman singing "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns into Bed." --seed