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References
- "Scots Songs and Ballads from Perthshire Tradition" Archived 13 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, (Part VIII), 4:2 (Boston, 1892), pp. 515-6 no. 182.
- ↑ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 750-3.
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