"The Sugar Beet" was the newspaper of Garden City High School in Garden City, Kansas.

April 21, 1961:

"They're serving...'great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts.'"


In the same year, "Love and Peanut Butter," Lesly Conger's tale of life in Vancouver, has:

"But when she comes closer, I hear Jill's song: “Great green gobs of gooey, gooey gopher guts.'"

So by 1961, the song was known from Kansas to British Columbia in more than one variant.