10 February 2010

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag

I remember singing this song in school then. The lyrics were given to us on cyclostyled sheets.

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 worth while, so
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.'

An odd song to teach children?

Do you remember this learning this when you were a child?
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4 comments:

  1. magdalene bernadette3:12 pm

    Hey, I so remember this song and its tune. LOL.....we are that young man.

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  2. Trebuchet2:38 pm

    I not only remember that song, I remember 'Land of Hope and Glory', 'I Vow To Thee My Country' and all kinds of other ancient warmongering colonial lyrics... *grin*

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  3. Chuang Shyue Chou8:34 pm

    Warmongering! What an apt description!

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  4. Chuang Shyue Chou8:35 pm

    Magdalene, may I know if you learned it in school like I did?

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