Listen, Mr. Bilbo (Mr. Bigot)

Peter, Paul and Mary

R: 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 
   
1. 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." 
R:
   
   Oh listen Mr. Bigot, (well, some of my best friends are)
   Listen Mr. Bigot (oh, they like to live with their own kind) 
   
2. 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. 
R:
   
   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!) 
   
3. 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. 
R:
   
4. 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 
R:
   
   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