How the West Was Won (1962)

“I forget how the West was won”

Angela & Uncle Jerry identify the opening line as an allusion to the 1962 film How the West Was Won. Uncle Jerry notes the film's central story focuses on the daughter of a highly religious man who falls in love with a frontiersman, a parallel to the song's narrative of forbidden love in a religious context. The father comes around to trust the man by the end, mirroring the song's final verse.