Let the record show

It's 1964  in the city of New York

Take the train to Queens

Meet a Jewish family

He's the youngest one of three

His brothers have left home

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

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

This is something you can't pretend

So he continues to insist that he's no champagne socialist

(That he's no champagne socialist)