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At 11:07 AM 2000/04/20 -0400, Camilla Flintermann <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Ken asked Don: > Do you remember a song called "Pack Up Your >>Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, and Smile, Smile Smile?" ... >Well Ken, I remember that as sung by my father--it was one of the World War >1 songs he used to sing, like "It's a Long way to Tipperary",... >Here are the words as I recall them---- and Don may know that >a "lucifer" is a match, and a "fag" a cigarette, >which was still P.C. in those days..... >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! >I agree that it's a good theme for our cyber-Dad, Don....and will also >mention that I had NOT been born yet when it was sung by the troops! :-) ditto for me and my dad, camilla although we may be talking about different troops ;-D !!! i had forgotten that i knew all the words to this one! dad died in 1977, but we still have his 'ditty' ['kit-ty?'] box from his service days which still contains a fascinating collection of curios and mementos including a water-tight silver case for holding 'lucifers' this creates an interesting link to yet another news story about smoking which i am about to post my father started smoking when he was 14 - [hah! i just realised that that was when he arrived in canada and went to work on a farm in ontario in a type of indentured-labour plan in exchange for free-passage to 'the new world'] - and he died of throat cancer in 1977 when he was 68 so all of those tales linking possible benefits connecting smoking tobacco and pd don't hold much water in this bucket! [not to pre-judge any compelling research in the area! janet smoke-free since 1970 janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0