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- ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2052." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. February 15, 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
- ↑ "Sawyer Brown Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1992". RPM . December 19, 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ↑ "Best of 1992: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1992. Retrieved August 15, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
