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- ↑ Everett, Holly: "The Many Lives of 'Cotton Eyed Joe'", Canadian Society for Traditional Music Conference, 2002, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland.
- ↑ Scarborough, Dorothy; Gulledge, Ola Lee (1925). On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs. Harvard University Press. p. 289. ISBN 0-674-01262-3 . Retrieved March 3, 2011.
He said he had known it from his earliest childhood and had heard the enslaved people sing it on the plantations.
- ↑ Lloyd Shaw, The Round Dance Book, The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1948, p. 314. No ISBN or catalogue number.
- ↑ McWhiney, Grady (1988), Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p.120. ISBN 0-8173-0458-4
- ↑ "Information at The Fiddler's Companion". Ibiblio.org. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
- ↑ Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (8 August 2016). The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-4422-5749-8.
- ↑ Pyrnelle, Louise Clarke (1910). Diddie, shoots, and Tot: or, Plantation child-life. Harper and Brothers. p. vi. ISBN 9781421967509 . Retrieved March 3, 2011.
The stories, plantation games, and Hymns are just as I heard them in my childhood
- ↑ Pyrnelle, Louise Clarke (1910). Diddie, Dumps, and Tot: or, Plantation child-life. Harper and Brothers. pp. 135–36. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
Cotton eyed Joe.
- ↑ Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine. Vol. 8. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. 1884. p. 534. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
- 1 2 Scarborough, Dorothy; Quiledge, Ola Lee (1925). "On The Trail of Negro Folk-Songs-online book. A collection of negro folk songs with lyrics, sheet music & commentaries". Traditionalmusic.co.uk. pp. 69–70. Archived from the original on March 9, 2012. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
- 1 2 Dance Across Texas Betty Casey, University of Texas Press, 1985, p. 17. ISBN 0-292-71540-4
- ↑ Harris, Pittman, Waller, Dance a While. Handbook of Folk, Square, and Social Dancing. 1950, 1955, 1964, 1968. Burgess Publishing Company, Fourth Edition, p. 151.
- ↑ "Grateful Dead Family Discography:Cotton-Eyed Joe". The Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
- ↑ Bill C. Malone, Don't Get above Your Raisin′, University of Illinois Press, 2001, p. 313. ISBN 0-252-02678-0
- ↑ "Honky Tonks, Hymns, & the Blues". Honkytonks.org. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
- ↑ Albert and Josephine Bulter, Encyclopedia of Social Dance, New York: Albert Bulter Ballroom Dance Service. New York, New York, 1975.
