Pack Up Your Troubles
music by felix powell / lyrics by george henry powell
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PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN YOUR OLD KIT BAG, AND SMILE, SMILE, SMILE
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (SONG CAR-TUNES) 1926
PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES (SONG CAR-TUNES) 1926
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Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag, And Smile, Smile, Smile is WW1 marching song written in 1915 by Welsh songwriter George Henry Powell. The song was written under the pseudonym George Asaf, and the song's music was written by Powells brother Felix. The song was written for a competition to find the "best morale-boosting song" - it won first place, and it was called "perhaps the most optimistic song ever written." Although George was a pacifist, and was a conscientious objector in 1916, his brother Henry was a content Staff Sergeant in the British Army. In 1916 the song was featured in the American show Her Soldier Boy. And in 1926 the song made it's big screen debut in an installment of Fleischer's Song Car-Tunes series, featuring a sing-a-long led by The Bouncing Ball.
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1915
PIANO ROLL |
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1916
EDWARD HAMILTON |
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1916
THE KNICKER- BOCKER QUARTET |
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1916
MURRAY JOHNSON |
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1916
F.W. RAMSEY |
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1917
HELEN CLARK & CHORUS |
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1917
VICTOR MILITARY BAND |
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1918
OSCAR SEAGLE |
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19??
EDWARD HAMILTON |
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19??
REINALD WERRENRATH |
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19??
TONY GALLA |
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1932
LAUREL & HARDY (TRAILER) |
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19??
DOC EVANS |
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19??
SHARKEY BONANO |
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19??
FLORRIE FORDE |
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1938
MARY MARTIN DUBBING MARGARET SULLAVAN from the film PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES |
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1941
' JOHN BROWNLEE |
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1942
SPIKE JONES |
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1942
DICK STABILE & GRACIE BARRIE |
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19??
THE ANDREWS SISTERS WITH DICK HAYMES POWELL |
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19??
BOB CROSBY & MARTHA TILTON |
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1969
from the film OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR |
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1973
MAX BYGRAVES |
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19??
from IT WAS A SHORT SHORT SUMMER, CHARLIE BROWN |
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19??
DRUMBAGO'S ALL STARS |
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19??
ANTHONY NEWLEY |
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2009
MINNUTES |
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2011
THE D-DAY DARLINGS |
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2013
THE SCOTTISH PALE SINGERS |
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2014
FRITZROVIA CHORUS |
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2014
K SHOES MALE VOICE CHOIR |
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2014
VANCOVER WELSH MEN'S CHOIR AND THE BAND OF THE 15th FIELD REGIMENT |
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2015
CHERRY MINT KOALA |
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2017
NATHAN LAY |
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2018
MILITARY WIVES CHORUS |
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LAUREL & HARDY - PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES
NOW & THEN LOOK AT FILM LOCATIONS LAUREL & HARDY - PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES
COLORIZED - Full MOVIE 1916 SILENT FILM
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PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES
Private Perks is a funny little
codger with a smile--a funny smile.
Five feet none, he's an artful little
dodger with a smile--a funny smile.
Flush or broke, he'll have his little
joke. He can't be suppress'd.
All the other fellows have to grin
when he gets this off his chest--hi!
Pack up your troubles in your old
kit-bag and smile, smile, smile.
While you've a lucifer to light your
fag, smile, boys--that's the style.
What's the use of worrying? It
never was worthwhile, so pack up
your troubles in your old kit-bag
and smile, smile, smile.
Private Perks went a-marching into
Flanders with his smile, his funny
smile. He was loved by the privates
and commanders for his smile--his
funny smile! When a throng of
Germans came along with a mighty
swing, Perks yell'd out, "This little
bunch is mine! Keep your heads
down, boys, and sing--hi!
Private Perks--he came back from Bosche-shooting
With his smile, his funny smile.
Round his home he then set about recruiting
With his smile, his sunny smile.
He told all his pals, the short and tall,
What a time he'd had!
And as each enlisted like a man,
Private Perks said "Now my lad," Hi!
Private Perks is a funny little
codger with a smile--a funny smile.
Five feet none, he's an artful little
dodger with a smile--a funny smile.
Flush or broke, he'll have his little
joke. He can't be suppress'd.
All the other fellows have to grin
when he gets this off his chest--hi!
Pack up your troubles in your old
kit-bag and smile, smile, smile.
While you've a lucifer to light your
fag, smile, boys--that's the style.
What's the use of worrying? It
never was worthwhile, so pack up
your troubles in your old kit-bag
and smile, smile, smile.
Private Perks went a-marching into
Flanders with his smile, his funny
smile. He was loved by the privates
and commanders for his smile--his
funny smile! When a throng of
Germans came along with a mighty
swing, Perks yell'd out, "This little
bunch is mine! Keep your heads
down, boys, and sing--hi!
Private Perks--he came back from Bosche-shooting
With his smile, his funny smile.
Round his home he then set about recruiting
With his smile, his sunny smile.
He told all his pals, the short and tall,
What a time he'd had!
And as each enlisted like a man,
Private Perks said "Now my lad," Hi!
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