A musician named Billy Lincoln has had a relatively successful career in bluegrass and country music, and now he records the story of a recent adventure he had with his musical producer friend, Peter. Peter’s grandfather found a song called, “Mother, Come Quickly” in the rural Appalachian countryside that has since gotten very popular, but is missing a verse. It tells of a girl who loves a boy but her father says he will hang the boy before they marry. They boy says he won't run even when before their wedding another girl is found with the boy’s knife in her body. Peter tells Billy that he found a clue to the missing last verse, so they go to rural Appalachia in his RV to look for the Lovin family, who supposedly knows the rest of the story. After asking around, Billy and Peter end up at an abandoned house where the Lovins supposedly lived years before. They decide to camp there before heading back, but in the middle of the night Billy wakes up to the eerie singing of “Mother, Come Quickly” from the house. He goes to investigate and sees Peter sitting in the house with an old, ugly woman who is singing the song. Peter appears to be entranced by the woman, and to Billy’s disgust after she finishes her song he even has sex with her. Then she sings the final verse, which tells of how the family killed, butchered, and ate the girl’s fiancé before their wedding. As she speaks, four figures that appear dead approach the house, pick Peter up, and carry him over to be hanged upside down like a pig on a spit. They then butcher and eat him until they finally fall asleep inside the house. Billy gets the gas can from the RV and pours it over their sleeping bodies, which seem to have de-aged, and then lights them on fire. He takes down Peter’s remains and buries them. He then gets a record deal for the final verse of the song and is scheduled for many radio/TV appearances due to its popularity. He also meets a beautiful young woman who sings like an angel and wants to take him home to meet her family, even though others joke that he’s hanging around an old hag. In case he dies before his album's release tomorrow, he sings the final verse of the song into the recorder, which describes how every young man the girl has loved gives more life to her family when they kill him.