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- ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1774." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. May 8, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Alan Jackson Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1993". RPM . December 18, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
- ↑ "Best of 1993: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
