Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag

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Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag is a song sung by Percy Blakeney to a group of Trolls (who he thought were Russians) after he accidentally stepped to another earth. The Trolls seem to enjoy it.

Annotation

  • “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag” is an actual song, though was originally known by the slightly longer title of “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and, Smile, Smile, Smile”. The song was immensely popular during World War One and was credited with boosting morale within the British troops. It was still taught to schoolchildren in the UK and Commonwealth countries as late as the 1980s. The full lyrics can be found here.