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Thread #57013   Message #2952890
Posted By: Jim Dixon
26-Jul-10 - 09:44 PM
Thread Name: Origins: My Gal's a Corker/...Girl's a New Yorker
Subject: RE: Origins: My Gal's a Corker/My Best Girl's a Co
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has the sheet music, described thus in its catalog:

Author: Stromberg, John, 1853-1902.
Title: MY BEST GIRL'S A NEW YORKER : latest waltz song and chorus / sung by the Washburn Sisters in Louis Robie's Fortuna Co. ; written & composed by John Stromberg.
Published: New York : Jos. W. Stern, c1895.
First line: Singing in praise of your sweetheart.
Chorus: My best girl's a corker.