My junior high school music teacher, Mr. Sobrola, {New Jersey, 1960} taught this song in music class. I'm sure he didn't use the title "My Girl's A Corker" and he didn't teach the parody-like verses. Instead, the words to what I call "That's Where My Money Goes", are very much like those posted above by GUEST,Guest on 09 Mar 07 - 09:01 AM. Here's the words we learned:

That's where my money goes, to buy my baby clothes.
I buy her everything, to keep her in style.
She's worth her weight in gold.
My lovely la-a-dy.
Hey, boys, that's where my money goes.

-snip-

I remember that we would sing the chorus of "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" right before we sang "That's Where My Money Goes". I used to think that these two were just one song. As you can see by the words to that chorus, the two songs fit each other very well:

"The girl of my dreams is the sweetest girl
of all the girls I know.
Each sweet coed, like a rainbow trail,
fades in the afterglow.
The blue of her eyes and the gold of her hair
are a blend of the western sky,
And the moonlight beams on the girl of my dreams.
She's the Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.

-snip-

A link to a Mudcat thread about that Sigma Chi song is here.

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I always wondered where that "Money's Worth" song came from. When I found out that there was really a song called "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi",I thought "That's Where My Money Goes" was just a verse of that song. But now I know that my music teacher was being creative by blending those two songs together. When i think back, I'm thankful for that teacher, and I better appreciate other examples of his creativity such as a Christmas musical that he wrote. I took this for granted when I was younger, but having met some-shall we say-uninspiring public school music teachers since then, I'm thankful that I had the opportunity to learn from that really nice teacher.

It's interesting to read the different versions of "My Girl's A Corker" and to learn that some children sung verses of that song while jumping rope.

I like those memories and I like mine too.