[Verse:] Poor little immigrant feeling Oh, so sad I came from Petrograd with ev'rything I had Now that I'm over here they won't let me stay That's why I'm so unhappy today Please don't send me away [1st refrain:] Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to Petrograd Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to my hometown There's millions of people on the shore Why can't you make room for just one more There's a boy that I love waiting out on the pier How can I go when my heart is over here Give me the chance that you gave all my friends from Petrograd I want to be in the land of the free and settle down That Liberty statue down the bay Is looking right at you and seems to say Oh! don't send her back It's terrible in my hometown [2nd refrain:] Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to Petrograd Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to my hometown The very best people that you know Were foreigners not so long ago When they came over here they were all immigrants So were their cousins and their uncles and their aunts Give me the chance that you gave all my friends from Petrograd I want to be in the land of the free and settle down I'll promise to work the best I can I'll even wash sheets for the Ku Klux Klan Oh! don't send me back It's terrible in my hometown
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