"Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am"

[Fred Shapiro]

Here is a question for Jesse and Barry and anyone else on the list:  Does
anyone have any solid or at least semi-solid information on the antiquity
of the phrase "wham bam thank you ma'am"?

Fred Shapiro


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