Quartermaster's Store Song
This Song is meant for Scouts BSA.
Decide for yourself if it is appropriate for your younger scouts or not.
Decide for yourself if it is appropriate for your younger scouts or not.
Lyrics:
There are rats, rats, as big as alley cats,
At the store, at the store.
There are rats, rats, as big as alley cats,
At the Quartermaster's store.
Chorus:
My eyes are dim, I can not see.
I have not brought my specks with me. [Repeat]
Mice . . . running through the rice.
Snakes . . . as big as garden rakes.
Beans . . . as big as submarines.
Gravy . . . enough to float the navy.
Cakes . . . that give us tummy aches.
Eggs . . . with scaly chicken legs.
Butter . . . running in the gutter.
Lard . . . they sell it by the yard.
Bread . . . with great big lumps like lead.
Cheese . . . that makes you want to sneeze.
Soot . . . they grow it by the foot.
Goats . . . eating all the oats
Bees . . . with little knobby knees.
Apes . . . eating all the grapes.
Turtles . . . wearing rubber girdles.
Coke . . . enough to make you choke.
Pepsi . . . that gives you apoplexy.
Roaches . . . sleeping in the coaches.
Flies . . . swarming 'round the pies.
Fishes . . . washing all the dishes.
Moths . . . eating through the cloths
Scouts . . . eating brussel sprouts.
Leaders . . . slapping at the skeeters.
Antelopes . . . eating cantalopes.
Bears . . . with curlers in their hair.
Bobwhites . . . wearing silken tights.
Buffalos . . . with hair between their toes.
Eagles . . . chasing little beagles.
Foxes . . . stuffed in little boxes.
Owls . . . shredding paper towels.
Staffers . . . swinging from the rafters.
At the store, at the store.
There are rats, rats, as big as alley cats,
At the Quartermaster's store.
Chorus:
My eyes are dim, I can not see.
I have not brought my specks with me. [Repeat]
Mice . . . running through the rice.
Snakes . . . as big as garden rakes.
Beans . . . as big as submarines.
Gravy . . . enough to float the navy.
Cakes . . . that give us tummy aches.
Eggs . . . with scaly chicken legs.
Butter . . . running in the gutter.
Lard . . . they sell it by the yard.
Bread . . . with great big lumps like lead.
Cheese . . . that makes you want to sneeze.
Soot . . . they grow it by the foot.
Goats . . . eating all the oats
Bees . . . with little knobby knees.
Apes . . . eating all the grapes.
Turtles . . . wearing rubber girdles.
Coke . . . enough to make you choke.
Pepsi . . . that gives you apoplexy.
Roaches . . . sleeping in the coaches.
Flies . . . swarming 'round the pies.
Fishes . . . washing all the dishes.
Moths . . . eating through the cloths
Scouts . . . eating brussel sprouts.
Leaders . . . slapping at the skeeters.
Antelopes . . . eating cantalopes.
Bears . . . with curlers in their hair.
Bobwhites . . . wearing silken tights.
Buffalos . . . with hair between their toes.
Eagles . . . chasing little beagles.
Foxes . . . stuffed in little boxes.
Owls . . . shredding paper towels.
Staffers . . . swinging from the rafters.
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Comments:
Dec 27, 2014 - juls
I remember this song from when i was a kid. Loved it then and still love it now. Its just fun.
Jul 24, 2015 - Bill Kruse
I'm 74 and learned this one as a Tenderfoot, too many years ago to mention. But still enjoy singing it at camp with the youth. Loved it then and still now as was mentioned before. Amazing how a tune will pop into your mind and bring back wonderful memories.
Feb 10, 2017 - sc
Ants eating underpants.... Favorite when
scout master leaves
Jun 08, 2021 - Rusty W
We also used to sing the verse, "They have girls, girls, girls, with little bitty curls."
Our troop also did "eggs with little bitty legs."
We also sang "whiskey that makes you feel so frisky."
Our troop also did "eggs with little bitty legs."
We also sang "whiskey that makes you feel so frisky."
Jun 08, 2021 - Rusty W
Oh, yeah, we also did "beer that makes you want to cheer!"
Times were different in the 1960s!
Times were different in the 1960s!
Dec 06, 2021 - Caden Moss
We always add “There are Webelos, Webelos, Webelos, eating
all the Cheetos”
May 07, 2022 - Scott
We rhymed stuff with each of our names doing stuff in the
quarter masters store and end with , my eyes are dim I cannot
see , I left my specs in the WC , I left my specs in the B.O.G.
Haha so funny .
Jun 04, 2022 - Zaharuddin Bin A Zabri
Our version was "Eggs walking on two
legs". We used this for charades and it
was hilarious. The whole troop was rolling
on the ground.
Nov 16, 2022 - Roxanne
This was in my head when I got up this morning. Yes, Girl Scouts sang it too! Skeeters big as parking
meters! Those were the days.
Oct 06, 2023 - Cathy R Hendrickson
What tune does this go to?
Oct 06, 2023 - Scouter Paul
@Cathy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHzuNSxhuMU But, Burl Ives slowed it down like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4crcpuhSp84
Apr 24, 2024 - Jim
How about this verse? There are bears bears , sleeping in the
chairs of the quarter masters’, quartermaster’s store!
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