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Listen, Mr. Bigot, listen to me, I'll give you a lesson in history
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Listen while I tell you that the foreigners you hate
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Are the very same people made America great.
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Oh listen Mr. Bigot, uh-huh...listen Mr. Bigot
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In 1492, just to see what he could see
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Columbus, who was an Italian set out across the sea
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He said "Isabella, baby, the world is round
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And the USA's just awaitin' to be found."
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Oh listen Mr. Bigot, (well, some of my best friends are)
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Listen Mr. Bigot (oh, they like to live with their own kind)
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Well when the King of England started pushin' Yanks around
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They had a little trouble up in Boston town
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But a brave, black, Crispus Attucks was the man
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The first one to fall when the fightin' began.
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Oh listen Mr. Bigot,
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(They can't help it. It's their cultural point of view)
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Listen Mr. Bigot (They all look alike to me!)
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Now Bigot, you're taking one hell of a chance
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Your good friends the Duponts, came over from France
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Another thing I'm sure will be news to you
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The first Mr. Bigot was a foreigner too.
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You don't like blacks, you don't like jews
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Well if there's anyone you do like, it sure is news
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You don't like Poles, Hispanics too
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Anyway they serve you up, we don't like you
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Oh listen Mr. Bigot,
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(Well there we were on the beach, just trying to get some sun
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And up comes a busload of them, well first they got these boxes that play this music, I mean it's not even in English.
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Then they take out these stoves or hibachi's or something
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The smoke was dreadful, the smell was even worse.
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I wouldn't let my daughter marry one, ya know?)
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Listen Mr. Bigot
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LISTEN, MR. BILBO (Mr. Bigot)
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| Peter, Paul & Mary |
