From "Funny, it Doesn't Sound Jewish: A Lecture-Entertainment" by Jack Gottlieb. Judy Blazer, vocals; Michael Barrett, piano. Recorded live March 30, 2011 as part of the New York Philharmonic Insights Series. Used by permisson.
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[Verse:]
Poor little immigrant feeling Oh, so sad
I came from Petrograd with ev'rything I had
Now that I'm over here they won't let me stay
That's why I'm so unhappy today
Please don't send me away

[1st refrain:]
Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to Petrograd
Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to my hometown

There's millions of people on the shore
Why can't you make room for just one more
There's a boy that I love waiting out on the pier
How can I go when my heart is over here

Give me the chance that you gave all my friends from Petrograd
I want to be in the land of the free and settle down

That Liberty statue down the bay
Is looking right at you and seems to say
Oh! don't send me back
It's terrible in my hometown

[2nd refrain:]
Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to Petrograd
Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to my hometown

The very best people that you know
Were foreigners not so long ago
When they came over here they were all immigrants
So were their cousins and their uncles and their aunts

Give me the chance that you gave all my friends from Petrograd
I want to be in the land of the free and settle down

That Liberty statue down the bay
Is looking right at you and seems to say
Oh! don't send me back
It's terrible in my hometown

Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: A Lecture-Entertainment

Don't Send Me Back to Petrograd (Irving Berlin)

Cantor Josh Breitzer has served Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn since 2011. Recently listed by The Jewish Daily Forward as one of the top new Jewish music voices in its "Soundtrack of Our Spirit" series, Cantor Breitzer has performed at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Merkin Concert Hall. For the past several years, he has appeared with the New York Festival of Song in their annual “A Goyishe Christmas to You” program and has previously enjoyed significant collaborations with Pulitzer Prize-winner Yehudi Wyner and the late author/composer Jack Gottlieb. As a dedicated and passionate Jewish music educator, Cantor Breitzer has coached young artists at NYC Opera, The Juilliard School, and Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. He has also taught at the Academy of Jewish Religion, the URJ Kutz Camp, and the North American Jewish Choral Festival. Cantor Breitzer is on faculty at the HUC-JIR Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music and is a vice president of the American Conference of Cantors.