Pack up your Troubles in your old kit - bag - wikipedia Pack up your Troubles in your old kit - bag `` Pack Up Your Troubles '' Song Published 1915 Genre March Composer ( s ) Felix Powell Lyricist ( s ) George Henry Powell Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit - Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile ( As sung by Helen Clark ( 1917 ) Problems playing this file ? See media help. `` Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit - Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile '' is the full name of a World War I marching song, published in 1915 in London. It was written by Welsh songwriter George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of `` George Asaf '', and set to music by his brother Felix Powell. It was featured in the American show Her Soldier Boy, which opened in December 1916. Performers associated with this song include Edward Hamilton, the Victor Military Band, James F. Harrison, Murray Johnson, Reinald Werrenrath, and the Knickerbocker Quartet. A later play presented by the National Theatre recounts how these music hall stars rescued the song from their rejects pile and re-scored it to win a wartime competition for a marching song. It became very popular, boosting British morale despite the horrors of that war. It was one of a large number of music hall songs aimed at maintaining morale, recruiting for the forces, or defending Britain 's war aims. Another of these songs, It 's a Long Way to Tipperary, was so similar in musical structure that the two were sometimes sung side by side. Snoopy on several occasions listened to the song when he fantasizes as a WWI flying ace. In the annual special, Schroeder plays a series of WWI songs on his piano, one of which was `` Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit - Bag ''. In multiple comics Snoopy can also be seen on his doghouse, singing `` It 's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary '', `` Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit - Bag '' and `` Over There ''. He then concludes saying `` We World War I flying aces are very sentimental. '' In another strip, he also questions how can you pack up your troubles in a kit - bag. Contents 1 Lyrics 2 In other languages 3 Other performances 4 In movies 5 Literary references 6 Video game usage 7 References 8 External links Lyrics The song is best remembered for its chorus : 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 worth while, so Pack up your troubles in your old kit - bag, And smile, smile, smile. In other languages The Dutch version goes : Pak al je zorgen in je plunjezak en fluit, fluit, fluit ! Aan alle moeilijkheden heb je lak, fluit man en ' t is uit ! Waarom zou je treuren, het helpt je niet vooruit, Dus : pak al je zorgen in je plunjezak en fluit, fluit, fluit. The Spanish version Guarda tus penas en el fondo del morral y rie ya ! Ponte contento y así venceras la dificultad ! Siempre estarás alegre, nunca triste estaras, jamás ! Guarda tus penas en el fondo del morral y rie ya. ! The German version : Weit ist der Weg zurück ins Heimatland, so weit, so weit Dort bei den Sternen über 'm Waldesrand liegt die alte Zeit Jeder brave Musketier sehnt heimlich sich nach dir Weit ist der Weg zurück ins Heimatland, ja weit, so weit ! The Norwegian translation `` Legg dine sørger i en gammel sekk '' ( possibly 1916 ) and the Swedish `` Lägg dina sorger i en gammal säck '' ( 1917 ) were by written by Karl - Ewert Christenson ( 1888 -- 1965 ) and recorded by singer Ernst Rolf. Other performances Florrie Forde performed it throughout the United Kingdom in 1916. Other performers associated with this song include the Helen Clark, Reinald Werrenrath, and Oscar Seagle. Cilla Black performed the song as a comedy / singing sketch on her variety television series Surprise Surprise. The original version was sampled in and inspired the song `` Pack Up '' by English musician Eliza Doolittle. In movies The song appears in several movies, including Pack Up Your Troubles ( 1932 ) with Laurel & Hardy, High Pressure ( 1932 ), and The Shopworn Angel ( 1938 ). It is also featured in For Me and My Gal ( 1942 ) starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. The song also featured briefly in the 1979 film All That Jazz, sung between Joe Gideon ( Roy Scheider ) and a hospital orderly. Literary references The title of Wilfred Owen 's bitter anti-war poem `` Smile, Smile, Smile '' ( September 1918 ) was derived from the song. Video game usage A female splicer can be heard singing the song in Bioshock Infinite : Burial at Sea Part 2 The character Probst Wyatt III, from 2014 's Wolfenstein : The New Order sings this song as part of a diversionary tactic during the game 's prologue. Edwards, McManus and Townsend can be heard singing this song in the chapter `` Through Mud and Blood '' in the Battlefield 1 campaign. It can be heard at random after the final tank battle. References Jump up ^ `` Indiana University Sheet Music ''. Pack up your troubles in your old kit - bag and smile, smile, smile. Retrieved 2013 - 04 - 16. Jump up ^ Pegler, Martin, Soldiers ' Songs and Slang of the Great War. Osprey Publishing, 2014, ISBN 9781427804150, pages 263 -- 264. Jump up ^ Paas, John Roger ( 2014 ). America Sings of War : American Sheet Music from World War I. Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 38, ISBN 9783447102780. Jump up ^ Paas, John Roger ( 2014 ). America Sings of War : American Sheet Music from World War I. Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 38. ISBN 9783447102780. Jump up ^ `` Productions : Pack Up Your Troubles ''. National Theatre. Retrieved 2007 - 08 - 23. Jump up ^ Malone, Gareth. `` The Importance of WWI Songs ''. www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2017. Jump up ^ Schulz, Charles. `` Peanuts by Charles Schulz, July 6, 1966 Via @ GoComics ''. Jump up ^ Schulz, Charles. `` Peanuts by Charles Schulz, January 9, 1968 Via @ GoComics ''. Jump up ^ Scott K. Williams ( September 1, 2001 ). `` Old Kit Bag ''. Retrieved 2007 - 08 - 22. Jump up ^ Tyler, Don ( 2016 ). Music of the First World War. ABC - CLIO. p. 18. ISBN 9781440839962. ^ Jump up to : Tyler, Don ( 2016 ). Music of the First World War. ABC - CLIO. p. 19. ISBN 9781440839962. Jump up ^ http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/poetry/smile-smile-smile, accessed February 7, 2018 External links Wikisource has original text related to this article : Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit - Bag BBC - How Pack Up Your Troubles Became the Viral Hit of WW1 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pack_Up_Your_Troubles_in_Your_Old_Kit-Bag&oldid=835186672 '' Categories : 1915 songs Songs of World War I Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikisource Cymraeg Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 7 April 2018, at 02 : 43. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
Answer: George Henry Powell