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- ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1628." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. September 21, 1991. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
- ↑ "Mary Chapin Carpenter Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1991". RPM . December 21, 1991. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
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