...what songs about them do people know? There are a few from the American side in the Vietnam War, but this is the only one I know about body-bagging on a mass scale:
Fifteen Million Plastic Bags (Adrian Mitchell)
I was walking in a government warehouse Where the daylight never goes When I saw fifteen million plastic bags Hanging in a thousand rows.
Five million were six feet long Five million were five foot five Five million were stamped with Mickey Mouse And they came in a smaller size.
Were they for guns or uniforms Or a kinky kind of party game? Then I saw each bag had a number And every bag bore a name.
Five million were six feet long Five million were five foot five Five million were stamped with Mickey Mouse And they came in a smaller size.
So I've taken my bag from the hanger And I've pulled it over my head And I'll wait for the priest to zip it So the radiation won't spread.
Five million were six feet long Five million were five foot five Five million were stamped with Mickey Mouse And they came in a smaller size.
(tune suggested by Mitchell: St James Infirmary, though the way I know it is a bit folk-processed).