Pete Seeger - The Ballad of Sherman Wu lyrics

As I was out walking
The streets of Northwestern
I spied a young freshman dejected and blue
And so when I asked him
"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
If I had a frat pin then I'd be a Psi U
I can't have a frat pin
Cause I'm Sherman Wu"

The dean said, "Now Sherman
Don't make a commotion
It's wrong to wash laundry
In public you know
The SGB soon will be making a motion
Condemning the action that bothers you so"
Now they still haven't made a
Psi U out of Sherman
Cause Jack Lageschulte said Wu had to go
If he were just Jewish, or Spanish, or German
But he's so damn Chinese the
Whole campus would know

As I was out walking
The streets of Northwestern
I spied a young freshman dejected and blue
And so when I asked him
"Why are you dejected?" he said
"I'm Chinese and I can't join Psi U!"