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Thread #4405   Message #4176850
Posted By: and e
14-Jul-23 - 01:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Chicago/I Used to Work in Chicago (bawdy)
Subject: RE: Origins: Chicago/I Used to Work in Chicago (bawdy)
I remember marching down the streets of Miami singing,
"Nothing can stop the army air corps...we used to work in Chicago
in a department store...we used to work in Chicago...I used to,
but I don't anymore! A woman came in for some cigarettes;
I asked her which kind she would adore? Camels she said, hump
she got, I did but I don't anymore!"


1942. This quote is from Bill Grigsby's Grigs!: A Beauuutiful Life autobiography. After his induction to the Army Air Corp and waiting for training in cryptography.

See here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Grigs_A_Beauuutiful_Life/sGyCDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22We+used+to+work+in+Chicago%22&pg=PT36&printsec=frontcover