Pack Up Your Troubles
| Category: | Fun |
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| Link: | Performance Example |
| Notes: | WWI marching song from 1915, now a campfire and scouting classic. Upbeat, forward-looking spirit fits perfectly with Scout values. "Lucifer" is an old word for a match. |
GPack up your troubles in your old Ckit-bag
And Gsmile, smile, D7smile
While you've a lucifer to Glight your fag
D7Smile, boys, that's the Gstyle!
What's the Cuse of worrying
It Gnever was worth-D7while, so
GPack up your troubles in your old Ckit-bag
And Gsmile, D7smile, Gsmile!
GPrivate Perks is a funny little Ccodger
With a Gsmile, a funny D7smile
Five feet none, he's an artful little dodger
With a D7smile, smile, Gsmile
He's no time for gloomy Willies
He Gmakes the ladies D7smile
So Gpack up your troubles in your old Ckit-bag
And Gsmile, D7smile, Gsmile!