O Abie sails over the ocean

Song and prose passage oppose immigration of Jews into the United States. Song and prose passage oppose immigration of Jews into the United States. Title from first line of poem on recto. Broadsheet; poetry on recto, prose on verso beginning: Excerpt from the Journal of Charles Pinckney of South Carolina. Text of song in five four-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Go back! Go back! Prose passage on recto purports to be passage from Pinckney's journal quoting anti-Jewish speech by Benjamin Franklin. Suggested place of publication and date from ms. notation on Brown University copy; mention of Jewish "refugees" being admitted to Great Britain, France and the United States indicates the late 1930's as date of composition of song.