Ballad of Sherman Wu - Pete Seeger

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»