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Thread #4405   Message #3924182
Posted By: Lighter
13-May-18 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Chicago/I Used to Work in Chicago (bawdy)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chicago / I Used to Work in Chicago
Earliest:

       I used to work in Chicago --
                I used to but no more.
        I used to work in Chicago,
                In a hosiery store.
        A lady asked for some garters,
                I asked the kind she wore:
        "Rubber," she said. Rubber I did.
                I did – but not any more.
                
From "National Lithographer," Vol. 30 (1923).

Also in "The Squib" (Massachusetts Agricultural College [now U. of Massachusetts, Amherst]), likewise 1923.