Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag (porch music)

with my banjo uke.
First World War (1915) song.
Fag = slang for cigarette.
What's a Lucifer? I don't know... perhaps a lighter?

THE WORDS & CHORDS TO THIS SONG ARE AT:
www.youtube.com/LDsongscreen

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Music

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• Lew
• Dite
• banjo
• uke
• porch
• music

[ukhankman]

Hi Lew, another great memory thanks, when i was about 11 I befriended a great old guy called Harry, he was like my grandpa, both mine had died before I was born. He always referred to the vesta type of match as a lucifer, because you could strike it on just about anything. I do remember him telling me that the original lucifer was a stick wood that you dipped into a liquid & it would burst into flame when it came into contact with the air, the forerunner of the modern match.

[lewdite]

@ukhankman Thanks for that great bit of background…

[cuteliana100]

My teacher put you up on you tube in front of my hole class cause we are learning this song and I have to say you are the best at it mate !!!

[lewdite]

@cuteliana100 Say hello to the whole class…

[musicologiststewball]

Hello

Lew...

In the 1932 Hal Roach Studios feature film,"Pack Up Your Troubles" starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy,the song was used as an instrumental theme running throughout the film (background scoring). Your straightforward and delightfully unpretentious interpretation offered her is a most welcomed treat for the ears.

Pax,

Max

[lewdite]

@musicologiststewball Thanks Max… and welcome back!

[Horse09Lover]

KWL KEEP GOING AND I MUST MENCHEN U QUITE GOOD SINGER :) Keep Going Please

[hoosierhiver]

5 stars!

[AMOGLES99]

Great song.

BTW, a lucifer is a match, or originally a brand of matches, from the Dutch word for match.

[Nx248]

hello

good singing :)

i just want to say

in 1915 the word Fag was a bunch of stiks or a tortch in the 2000

the word Fag was used as an insult to gay people

and indeed a Lucifer is a matche from the duch word lucifer

keep up the good singing dums up

[blacklion90000]

It's better if a cockney does it

[Yakerina]

Love it! Now I really need to learn to play an instrument decently.

[raymondcrooke]

@musicologiststewball It did indeed, and we did a lot of songs together. In fact, we were actually shown on Canadian television today, singing a song I wrote about B & B owner, Rita Hagan, in an episode of "Land and Sea" about her life.

Good to see you back on YouTube, Max.