<Li> Electric string quartet Stringfever recorded a cover of the song on their 2009 album Stringfever . </Li> <Li> Futurama featured a parody of the song in Episode 9 of Season 1 . </Li> <Li> Robot Chicken featured a composite parody of the song along with the animated series Spawn in Episode 49 of Season 3, where Malebolgia, an infernal lord, is challenged by Spawn to a fiddle duel set to a similar tune . </Li> <P> The original version of the song spent fourteen weeks on the Hot Country Singles charts in 1979, peaking at number 1 and holding the position for one week . It spent two weeks at a peak of number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The single was certified Platinum by the RIAA on December 20, 1989 for sales of over one million copies in the United States . </P>

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