No Champagne Socialist - Arkells

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)