Commentary
The song has typical archetypal elements of the separated lovers, the interrupted wedding, and the inconsolable rejected lover. In the "Yellow Ribbon" variants, the adornment is a reminder of lost love, similar to Ireland's The Black Velvet Band.
Sailors are notoriously unfaithful, so this is an interesting twist, with the man being true, and the woman being inconstant.
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