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- ↑ "CMT.com : Making of : About the Episode". Country Music Television . Retrieved June 4, 2012.
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- ↑ "Jimmy Buffett Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.