On Top of Old Smoky (English Wikipedia)

Perrow is not clear on where he got the text from; his label says: "From North Carolina; mountain whites; MS. written for E. N. Caldwell; 1913". E. C. Perrow (1915) Songs and Rhymes from the South. The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 28, No. 108 (Apr. - Jun., 1915), pp. 129-190. Available on JSTOR (pay site), and currently posted online at [4].

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Sparks, Jack (30 June 2004). "El Platáno Blanco's Guide to Live Music". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2012.

See [3], as well as Sharp and Karpeles (1916) identifying Memory Shelton as daughter of Mrs. Noah Shelton.

"The Little Mohee" can be perused in Richard Chase (2014) American Folk Tales and Songs. Courier Corporation. Extract online at Google Books: [5].
Loraine Wyman and Howard Brockway (1916) Lonesome tunes: Folk songs from the Kentucky mountains. New York: H. W. Gray. The tune varies slightly from what is familiar today. The song may be viewed at Google Books: [7].
"The Billboard Music Popularity Charts: Records Most Played by Disk Jockeys". Billboard. May 26, 1951. p. 20.
"The Billboard Music Popularity Charts: Records Most Played by Disk Jockeys". Billboard. June 2, 1951. p. 20.
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Tyler, Don (2007). Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era. McFarland. p. 318. ISBN 9780786429462..

Data from the Brown University archive of Wyman's field notes (p. 7), online at [6]. The date of the field note entry is 8 May 1916.

Sparks, Jack (30 June 2004). "El Platáno Blanco's Guide to Live Music". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2012.

Brita Borg med Flickery Flies - Högt uppe på berget. 7 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 4 May 2016 – via YouTube.

See Folk song. For a detailed history of how Appalachian folk song was "discovered" around this time by scholars and other urbanites, see [1].

"How to Write a "On Top of Old Smokey" Poem". PoetryTeachers.com. Archived from the original on 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2022-06-28.

"How to Write a "On Top of Old Smokey" Poem". PoetryTeachers.com. Archived from the original on 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
"Brita Borg". Archived from the original on 4 June 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
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Brita Borg med Flickery Flies - Högt uppe på berget. 7 February 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 4 May 2016 – via YouTube.