Listen Mr Bilbo mr Bigot Lyrics by Peter, Paul & Mary

Listen Mr Bilbo mr Bigot Lyrics

    Chorus:
    Listen, mr. bigot, listen to me, i'll give you a lesson in history
    Listen while i tell you that the foreigners you hate
    Are the very same people made america great.
    Oh listen mr. bigot, uh-huh...listen mr. bigot

    In 1492, just to see what he could see
    Columbus, who was an italian set out across the sea
    He said "isabella, baby, the world is round
    And the usa's just awaitin' to be found."

    (chorus)

    Oh listen mr. bigot, (well, some of my best friends are)
    Listen mr. bigot (oh, they like to live with their own kind)

    Well when the king of england started pushin' yanks around
    They had a little trouble up in boston town
    But a brave, black, crispus attucks was the man
    The first one to fall when the fightin' began.

    (chorus)

    Oh listen mr. bigot,
    (they can't help it. it's their cultural point of view)
    Listen mr. bigot (they all look alike to me!)

    Now bigot, you're taking one hell of a chance
    Your good friends the duponts, came over from france
    Another thing i'm sure will be news to you
    The first mr. bigot was a foreigner too.

    (chorus)

    You don't like blacks, you don't like jews
    Well if there's anyone you do like, it sure is news
    You don't like poles, hispanics too
    Anyway they serve you up, we don't like you

    (chorus)

    Oh listen mr. bigot,
    (well there we were on the beach, just trying to get some sun
    And up comes a busload of them, well first they got these boxes that play this music, i mean it's not even in english.
    Then they take out these stoves or hibachi's or something
    The smoke was dreadful, the smell was even worse.
    I wouldn't let my daughter marry one, ya know?)

    Listen mr. bigot

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