"Past the gums, look out stomach, here it comes" (1930)

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My wife was watching A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT and this eating/drinking line
was used. Does Fred have it?
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(GOOGLE BOOKS)
_Eats: A Folk History of Texas Foods - Page  x_
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN087565035X&id=Knu0Xn2iJb4C&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq="look+out+stomach"&ie=
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by Ernestine P. Sewell,  Ernestine Sewall Linck, Joyce Gibson Roach -  1992 -
257 pages
... x Instead of  blessing some merely anticipate the eats: Over the lips and
past
the gums  Look out, stomach, here it comes. But it is most common to bless
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16 September 1930, Chicago Daily Tribune, "A Line O' Type Or Two, pg.  14:
Past the lips, across the gums,
Look out stomach, here it comes.
A KNOX TEKE.
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11 November 1930, Southtown Economist (Chicago, IL), pg. 4, col. 6:
SOME doctor with a bit of Shakespeare, James Whitcomb Riley, and Sam  Hellman
in his makeup, composed on a quiet afternoon, or perhaps it was an  evening,
this thrilling verse:
"Over the teeth and through the gums,
Down the red alley and through the lungs,
Look out, stomach, here she comes."
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18 September 1956, Long Beach (CA) Press- Telegram, pg. B9, col. 1:
"Through the lips, past the gums, look out stomach, here it  comes!"

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