 The song was performed by vampire Bill Compton (played by Stephen Moyer) in the sixth episode of the second season of the HBO show True Blood, also called "Hard-Hearted Hannah"; Dolly Kay's recording of the song plays over the final credits.It is known that the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was fond of this song.He heard it during his first trip to the United States and later referred to it in his influential essay "How to Make Poems".