My mother's version of it

[Wilson Gray]

Gimme some skin, my friend; from In the navy, w & m Don Uaye, Red Mack &
Gene de Paul. © June 17, 1941

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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