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)
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)