This song tells a sad story:

Gist of the story:

A man steals a horse, but gets caught and brought before a judge, who sentences him to death. His daughter hears of this and brings all her money to try to free her father, but the judge tells her the only way he’ll let her father go free is if she has sex with him. The girl’s father tells her not to do it, but out of love for her father, the girl sleep with the judge. She wakes up the next morning to see her father’s body hanging from a tree – the judge had hung him anyway.