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