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- ↑ John Harrington Cox Folk-Songs of the South 1963 - Page 342 CHARMING BEAUTY BRIGHT American texts have been printed as follows: Journal, xxvi, 176 (Kittredge; taken down in 1877 or 1878 from an old lady born in Boston in 1799); xxvm, 147 (Perrow; Mississippi); xxix, 184 (Tolman; Indiana); ...
- ↑ James P. Leary Wisconsin Folklore 0299160335 -1999 - Page 219 and "Once I Courted a Charming Beauty Bright" on Folk Musk From Wisconsin (AAFS L55);
- ↑ "Song Information". maxhunter.missouristate.edu. Missouri State University. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
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