The American musician Bob Wills heard "Maiden's Prayer" played on a fiddle while he was a barber in Roy, New Mexico,[3] and arranged the piece in the Western swing style.

[7] His lyrics reflect the title, and the song, as written by Wills, opens with: Twilight falls, evening shadows find, There 'neath the stars, a maiden so fair divine.

[citation needed] The "Maiden's Prayer" is quoted in the 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.

[citation needed] "Maiden's Prayer" appears as an insert piano song in the anime series Strawberry Panic.

[citation needed] In 1993, the North Korean Wangjaesan Dance Troupe's VHS tape featured this song in electronic arrangement.

[citation needed] In the 2013 television serial The Tunnel, Anglo-French actor and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg performs a voice-over to the tune of the Maiden's Prayer, singing a mixture of French and English: Venez dans mes bras, closer to me, dear.

In Japan, the melody of Bądarzewska's Maiden Prayer is played when the platform door of Shinkansen bullet trains closes.

[17] The Maiden's Prayer was used in a macabre context in Mary Wilkins Freeman's ghost story The Wind in the Rose-Bush (published 1903), where the main character, roused from sleep by the sound of the melody being played in a seemingly empty house, rushed downstairs to see who was at the piano, only to find that there was no one there.