Pete Seeger — The Ballad of Sherman Wu

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!"