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No Champagne Socialist Lyrics
Let the record show
It's 1964
In the city of New York.
Take the train to Queens
And meet a Jewish family --
He's the youngest one of three.
His brothers have left home
And he's on the same road,
Just a credit 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.
It's 1964
In the city of New York.
Take the train to Queens
And meet a Jewish family --
He's the youngest one of three.
And he's on the same road,
Just a credit shy of a diploma.
The struggling-with-rent,
But he can't live on both sides of the fence.
That he's no champagne socialist.
After studying the facts,
He knows of all the problems of the past.
That in order to proceed,
We can't just keep on preaching what we need.
Is to live and work with them,
And this is something you can't pretend.
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good band, good song. The meaning is pretty clear from the lyrics
corrected: Let the record show It's 1964, in the city of New York take the train to Queens And meet a Jewish family
He's the youngest boy of three his brothers have left home And he's on the same rope Just a credit 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
And 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 (one of them) 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)