"Gyöngyhajú lány" was very popular in many countries, including West Germany, Great Britain, France, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.
Omega also recorded other versions of this song in foreign languages: English ("Pearls in Her Hair") and German ("Perlen im Haar").
"Gyöngyhajú lány" was covered in Poland (as "Dziewczyna o perłowych włosach"), Czech Republic (as "Paleta" by Markýz John [cs] and "Dívka s perlami ve vlasech" by Aleš Brichta and "Perly bilé" by Tibor Lenský [cs]), Yugoslavia (as "Devojka biserne kose" by Griva), Bulgaria (as "Батальонът се строява" (Batalyonat se stroyava) by Южен вятър [bg]), Lithuania (as "Meilės Nėra" by Keistuolių Teatras), in Bosnia and Herzegovina (as war song of The Army of Republic Bosnia-Herzegovina "Zemljo što ne znaš za strah", and later as "Nirvana" by Krivi Toranj).
However, in May 2016, songwriter Gábor Presser filed a lawsuit seeking $2.5 million in damages for copyright infringement for the use of the sample, which was later settled out of court.
In 2021, the Second Captains podcast sampled the original version of the song on an audiobed which empathised with the plight of Frank Lampard being expected work with this group of players whilst the manager of Chelsea F.C.