No Champagne Socialist

Let the record show
 It's 1964, in the city of New York
 And take the train to Queens
 And meet a Jewish family
 He's the youngest one of three
 And his brothers have left home
 And he's on the same road
 Just credits shy of a diploma
 But he wants to represent
 The struggling with rent
 But he can't live on both sides of the fence
 So he continues to insist that he's no champagne socialist
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 And he's not coming back
 After studying the facts
 He knows of all the problems of the past
 But he's quick to concede
 That in order to proceed
 We can't just keep on preaching what we need
 To become a working man
 Is to live and work with them
 And this is something you can't pretend
 So he continues to insist that he's no champagne socialist
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 (That he's no champagne socialist)
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 (He's no champagne socialist)