Standard (EADGBE)

Night is here again, baby,

I'm stretched out on my bed

Seeing all kinds of crazy notions

Running through my head

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;

Ain't no reactionary baby

Can ease my revolutionary mind.

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.