 Composer David Buttolph used the melody to represent bittersweet parting at the end of the 1959 western "The Horse Soldiers".In the 1989 miniseries "Lonesome Dove" the tune is used in the background as Gus McCrae lies dying – ostensibly played on a whorehouse piano.The tune of the song is used in the saloon scene near the beginning of the 2012 film "Cowboys & Aliens", played on fiddle.