| Night is here again, baby, |
| I’m stretched out on my bed |
| Seeing all kinds of crazy notions |
| Running through my head; |
| I need a progressive woman; |
| I need an awfully liberal woman; |
| Ain’t no reactionary baby |
| Can ease my revolutionary mind. |
| One hand is on my pillow |
| One hand is on my head, |
| I see a million nightmares |
| Tearing around inside my head; |
| I need a progressive woman |
| I need an awfully liberal woman |
| I need a social conscious woman |
| To ease my revolutionary mind. |
| If I could only make you see, babe, |
| I ache and pain and bleed, |
| I know you’d come a runnin' |
| If you blistered both your feet. |
| I need a progressive woman; |
| I need an awful liberal woman; |
| I need an open minded mama |
| To ease my revolutionary mind. |
| If you could see me here, baby, |
| Broke out with salty sweat; |
| No matter where you go I know |
| You never could forget |
| I need a progressive woman; |
| I need a liberal thinking woman; |
| I need an open hearted mama |
| To ease my revolutionary mind. |
| I ain’t no lumpen proletariat, |
| And I ain’t no petty bourgeoisie |
| But I’m gonna be a cold corpse |
| If you don’t run here to me |
| I need a progressive shipmate; |
| I need a liberous nature lover, |
| But no reactionary female |
| Can ease my revolutionary mind. |
| If you’re a republican or a democrat, |
| Or a white hood Ku Klux Klan, |
| No use to ring my doorbell |
| 'Cause I’ll never be your man |
| I want a union working woman |
| I want a progressive liberous woman, |
| I want a nice progressive mama |
| To ease my revolutionary mind. |