IRVING BERLIN lyrics - Don't Send Me Back To Petrograd

[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