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I was watching Rage on ABC the other week when I heard this song playing: Canvas Bags by Tim Minchin. A little slow to build up but it gets hilarious towards the end. I find that Australia is a little slow to the canvas bag game... we're still using plastic bags at the supermarket. But I guess things are slowly changing... Officeworks don't give out bags anymore and Target is phasing their out.

Music Video: Canvas Bags by Tim Minchin Directed by Stephen Leslie, this be the unedited version of Tim Minchin's Environmental Anthem film clip recorded for BBC3's Comedy Shuffle.

Tim Minchin - Canvas Bags lyrics

Take your canvas bags
When you go
To the supermarket
Why use plastic bags when you know
You know the world can’t take it

Take your canvas bags
When you go
To the supermarket market market
Don’t you use those plastic ones
No, no, no
Don’t you know that you’ll feel better for it

Take your canvas bags
Take your canvas bags
Take your canvas bags
To the supermarket

Just think about the world
And how the world would be fantastic
If we got rid of all the plastic
We just need to get enthusiastic
Start a competition gymnastic
Or a bag making comp at your school
Fuck it, make it interscholastic
Canvas is for everyone
Whether you be rebellious and iconoclastic
Or conservative or ecclesiastic
I don’t care if you’re loud and bombastic
Or quiet or virtually monastic
Sober or on the floor spastic
Yoga master or completely inelastic
I’m not trying to be ironic or sarcastic
Just do something drastic
To rid the world of plastic

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