My mother's version of it

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>> Gimme some skin, my friend; from In the navy, w & m Don Uaye, Red Mack &
>> Gene de Paul. June 17, 1941
>
> HDAS could beat that by some years, IIRC.

Don't know what's in the unpublished "S" files of HDAS, but the
earliest I've seen is 1940, from Dan Burley:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0802A&L=ADS-L&P=R4306

GDoS has "slip me some skin" from 1939 (in Herbert & Spencer's
Jitterbug Jamboree Song Book).

--bgz

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