Lyr Add: Fifteen Million Plastic Bags

Subject: Lyr Add: Fifteen Million Plastic Bags
From: Jack Campin
Date: 01 Jun 19 - 05:14 AM

In the light of this...

the Brexit body bag stockpile

...I slightly altered Adrian Mitchell's song from the 1970s. Tune is a variant of St James Infirmary.

When I was walking in a government warehouse
Where daylight never goes
I saw fifteen million plastic bags
Hanging in a thousand rows.

CHORUS:
Five million were six feet long
Five million were five foot five
Five million were printed with Mickey Mouse
And came in a smaller size.

Were they for guns or uniforms?
Or some kinky kind of party game?
Then I saw that each bag had a number
And every bag had a name.

chorus

So I've taken my bag from its hanger
And pulled it over my head
Keeping hold of my new blue passport -
I'm proud and I'm British and dead.

chorus