The Quartermasters Store Campfire Song Badge | Scouts Badges

There are rats, rats as big as alley cats, in the stores in the stores ♫♪ Come sing and be merry! With a Quartermaster's Store campfire song design, this superb Scouts' badge is inspired by nights singing together at camp, the fire and song bringing warmth and unity to everyone. 

This woven blanket badge is perfect for everyone—not just Scouts! If you have never sung around a campfire, now is the time to try. As Scouts, we highly recommend it!

This campfire song badge is ideal for adding to camp blankets and ponchos to display at camp or adding to treasured badge collections.

Campfires have always been an important part of Scouts, whether outdoors or recreated fire-free indoor campfires. Good camp songs help everyone have fun and join in around the campfire, building camping spirit and making great memories.

We have 12 inspired campfire song badges in the range, so gather your campers, marshmallows, and voices because it’s time for a Scouts' classic campfire sing-along!

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Scouts Campfire Songs

We’ve put together a list of brilliant campfire songs, from opening your campfire, to getting everyone dancing and laughing, to calming and focusing songs before bedtime.

Activity - Sing some campfire songs

The Quartermaster's Store Campfire Song

Verse **

There are rats, rats as big as alley cats

In the stores, in the stores

There are rats, rats as big as alley cats

In the Quartermaster’s store

Chrous

My eyes are dim, I cannot see

I have not brought my specs with me

I have not brought my specs with me

** Repeat, replacing lines 1 and 3 with the following instead of rats. Follow with the chorus after each verse.

Mice . . . running through the rice

Snakes . . . as big as garden rakes

Beans . . . as big a submarines

Gravy . . . enough to float the navy

Cakes . . . that give us tummy aches

Eggs . . . with scaly chicken legs

Butter . . . running into the gutter

Lard . . . they sell it by the yard

Bread . . . with great big lumps like led

Cheese . . . that makes you want to sneeze

Soot . . . they grow it by the foot

Goats . . . eating all the oats

Bees . . . with little knobbly knees

Owls . . . shredding paper towels

Apes . . . eating all the grapes

Turtles . . . wearing rubber girdles

Bear . . . with curlers in its hair

Buffalos . . . with hair between their toes

Foxes . . . stuffed in little boxes

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 all the clothes

Scouts . . . eating Brussel sprouts

Leaders . . . slapping at the skeeters