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"The Quartermaster Corps", also known as "The Quartermaster Store" or
"The Commissary Store" is a song known in Canada and the United States.
The adult version is a drinking song and the children's version is more innocent.
Like "The Five Constipated Men in the Bible" the tune of the verse is the refrain of the hymn tune "Power in the Blood" which was written by Lewis E. Jones around 1899. "The Quartermaster Corps" was printed in Hopkins' Songs from the Front & Rear: Canadian Servicemen's Songs of the Second World War (1979), Fred and Irwin Silber's Folksinger's Wordbook (1973), Averill's Camp Songs, Folk Songs (2014), (no author listed) Boy Scout Songbook (Boy Scouts of America, 1970, 1997) and Mechling's "Magic of the Boy Scout Campfire", in the Journal Of American Folklore Volume 93, Number 367 (Jan-Mar 1980) (appears as "Commissary Store"). It appears in the Roud Folk Song Index as #10508. |