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- 1 2 Studwell, William Emmett; Scheueneman, Bruce R. (2001). eCollege Fight Songs II: A Supplementary Anthology. The Haworth Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 9781136388316 . Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ↑ Davi, John. Liner Notes of Stanford: Up Toward Mountains Higher, A Century of Cardinal Favorites, Stanford Fleet Street Singers, Stanford, 1991.