Pack Up Your Troubles
music by felix powell / lyrics by george henry powell

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 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 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 Max Fleischer's Song Car-Tunes series, featuring a sing-a-long led by The Bouncing Ball. 
1915

PIANO
​ROLL
1916

EDWARD
​HAMILTON
1916

THE
KNICKER-
BOCKER
​QUARTET
1916

MURRAY
​JOHNSON
1916

F.W.
​RAMSEY
1917

HELEN
CLARK
​& CHORUS
1917

VICTOR
MILITARY
​BAND
1918

OSCAR
​SEAGLE
19??
​
EDWARD
​HAMILTON
19??

REINALD
WERRENRATH
19??

TONY
​GALLA
1932

LAUREL
& HARDY
​(TRAILER)
19??

DOC
​EVANS
19??

SHARKEY
​BONANO
19??

FLORRIE
​FORDE
1938

MARY MARTIN
DUBBING
MARGARET
SULLAVAN
from the film
PACK UP YOUR
​TROUBLES
1941
'
JOHN
​BROWNLEE
1942

SPIKE
​JONES
1942

DICK
STABILE
& GRACIE
​BARRIE
19??

THE
ANDREWS
SISTERS
WITH DICK
HAYMES
​POWELL
19??

BOB
CROSBY &
MARTHA
​TILTON
1969

from the film
OH! WHAT A
​LOVELY WAR
1973

MAX
​BYGRAVES
19??

from
IT WAS A
SHORT SHORT
SUMMER,
CHARLIE
BROWN
19??

DRUMBAGO'S
​ALL STARS
19??

ANTHONY
​NEWLEY
2009

MINNUTES
2011

THE
D-DAY
DARLINGS
2013

THE
SCOTTISH
PALE
​SINGERS
2014

FRITZROVIA
​CHORUS
2014

K SHOES
MALE VOICE
​CHOIR
2014

VANCOVER
WELSH MEN'S
CHOIR AND
THE BAND OF
THE 15th FIELD
REGIMENT
2015

CHERRY
MINT
​KOALA
2017

NATHAN
LAY
2018

MILITARY
WIVES
CHORUS
LAUREL & HARDY - PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES
NOW & THEN LOOK AT FILM LOCATIONS
LAUREL & HARDY - PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES
​COLORIZED - Full MOVIE 
1916 SILENT FILM
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!
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