Send 'em Back
© 1995 Watunes (BMI)
(From "Folk Heroes" [Reprise])
Little Pedro and Juanita
Arrived this morning in Reseda
On a special overnight delivery
They bubbled and they burbled and they flashed their brown eyes at us
We said check their little heartbeats and their immigration status
And if you should find they're here illegally . . .
Send 'em back
Send 'em back
Give 'em one good whack and half an hour to pack
Hand their cousins to the fuzz 'n stick 'em on a southbound bus
Restrict immigration, give the country back to us
Little Helga and her father
Came across the rolling water
On a stormy day in 1923
And he labored as a carpenter so she could be a doctor
Now they convalesce together in the window where he rocked her
And they're burdens on the state economy . . .
Send 'em back
Send 'em back
Give 'em one Big Mac and serum Ipecac
On a steamer back to Bremerhaven instantaneous
Restrict immigration, give the country back to us
Send the Fins back to Finland
And the Russians further inland
Sent the Poles back to Poland
And the penguins to the Pole
Any man with a tan
Should go back to Tanzania
And Aegeans to Aegea
And Koreans back to Seoul
Well, Columbus found this nation
Had a native population
Who'd been living here since many years B.C.
Descended from a people who were noble, brave and daring
Who'd migrated 'cross the Bering eating bits of frozen herring
And spread out across this continent from sea ... to sea ... so peaceful and so free ...
Send 'em back
Send 'em back
Put 'em on a trek Columbo couldn't track
Let 'em count the steps to China on a friggin' abacus
Restrict immigration
And give this mighty nation
Back to us ... squirrels