My mother's version of it

[Jonathan Lighter]

 Sorry.  1939 remains the date to beat. I was thinking of something
entirely different.

JL


On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> >> 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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> > HDAS could beat that by some years, IIRC.
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> Don't know what's in the unpublished "S" files of HDAS, but the
> earliest I've seen is 1940, from Dan Burley:
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0802A&L=ADS-L&P=R4306
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> GDoS has "slip me some skin" from 1939 (in Herbert & Spencer's
> Jitterbug Jamboree Song Book).
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> --bgz
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