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



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



(That he's no champagne socialist)

(He's no champagne socialist)