Pete Seeger - Ballad of Sherman Wu by Pete Seeger lyrics

As I roved out on the streets of Northwestern I spied a young freshman dejected and blue, I said "Young man--why are you dejected?" He said, "I'm Chinese and I can't join Psi U!" "I see by your frat pin that you are a Psi U If I had a frat pin I'd be one too But I can't have a frat pin and I can't be a Psi U I can't be a Psi U because my name's Sherman Wu." The dean said, "Now Sherman, don't raise a commotion It's wrong to wash laundry in public you know If he was just Jewish, Italian or German But he's so damn Chinese the whole campus would know." --- .