 The resemblance between the main tune's first four lines and a passage within the theme of the last movement of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony (1896) was pointed out by Deryck Cooke in 1970.Mahler may have derived this passage from the overture to Daniel Auber's comic opera (Marco Spada (1852).Billie Holiday's 1944 recording of the song was the final transmission sent by NASA to the "Opportunity" rover on Mars when its mission ended on 13 February 2019.