There are limitless variations to this song. You can find more verses in the Song Notes.

Notes

*Or "blooming cats"

Here's the version Chloe sent us:

There were eggs, eggs on tiny little legs,
In the store, in the store,
There were eggs, eggs on tiny little legs
In the quartermaster's store!

(Chorus)
My eyes are dim! I can not see!
I have not brought my specs with me!
I have not brought my specs with me!

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More Verses:

There is gravy, gravy, enough to sink a navy...
There is cheese, cheese, to bring you to your knees...
There are beans, beans as big as submarines...
There are bears, bears, but no one really cares...
There is bread, bread as hard as lumps of lead...

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Brian sent this note with more verses...

I remember the following verses from when I was a child: -

There were chips, chips as big as battleships...
There were dogs, dogs, the size of sows and hogs...
There were plates, plates as big as garden gates...
There were hats, hats as big as cricket bats...
There were clocks, clocks that smelled like football socks...
There were nails, nails the size of train track rails...

I'm sure there were others so if I can remember them, I'll pass them on.

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Heidi wrote: "Found myself singing this this morning and couldn't remember all the words, and so found your page - much nostalgia, thanks! My Dad was in the Army during WWII and the 'enough gravy to sink the Navy' line led onto other verses far too filthy to repeat here! A couple of OK ones I can offer are:

'There was Mabel, Mabel, underneath the table, in the stores, in the stores .........
There was jelly, jelly, wobbling on her belly, in the Quartermaster's stores'."

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Maria Land wrote:

"When I was a guide (in the 1970's) , for the second set of 'I have not brought my specs with me!' we used to sing 'I left them in the lavatory!'."

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Jay wrote:

"My favorite lines in 'The Quartermaster Store' song from Philadelphia troop 415 in 1955 were:

There were rats, rats, rats,
In bowler hats and spats.

There were beans, beans, beans,
That made you fill your jeans.

Best,

Jay"

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Thanks to Chloe Gioia for sharing this song with us! Thanks to Brian, Heidi, Maria and Jay for sending more verses!