In modern cinema, this is the title of an independent Southern Gothic horror/drama film.

The story follows a 17-year-old boy named Eli who moves with his family to a rural, isolated farm in Kentucky owned by a reclusive man named Waylon. Eli soon discovers that the woods surrounding the farm hold dark, supernatural secrets.

The song delivers a chilling, poetic narrative of death and memory. Its opening lines are iconic: "The last kind words I heard my daddy say... if I die in the German war, I want you to send my body to my mother."