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            <text>&lt;a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/books2"&gt;Cohen, Anne B. &lt;span class="font9"&gt;Poor Pearl, Poor Girl! The Murdered-Girl Stereotype in Ballad and Newspaper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="font8"&gt;. Published for the American Folklore Society by The University of Texas Press. 1973. (Study of the ballad of Pearl Bryan; there are several recordings of the song in the collection.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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            <text>&lt;a href="http://lomaxky.omeka.net/articles6"&gt;Purnell, Janice. “'Pearl Bryan' and 'The Jealous Lover'.” &lt;span class="font13"&gt;Kentucky Folklore Record&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="font12"&gt;. Vol. 12, No. 1, 1966. pp. 1-3. (The collection includes several recordings of both songs &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="font8"&gt;in the collection.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="font12"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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