I still don't know if this is the same song. I was able to locate the lyrics. I have always thought it was excellent.

GIVE A DAMN
(1970) Spanky and our Gang

If you take the train with me
Uptown through the misery
Of ghetto streets in morning light
There always night (possibly They're)
Take a window seat, put down your times
You can read between the lines
Just meet the faces that you see
Beyond the window's pane (pain)

Chorus
And it might begin to teach you
How to give a damn about your fellow man

Put your girl to sleep sometime
With rats instead of nursery rhymes
With hunger and your other children at her side
And wonder if you'll share your bed
With something else that must be fed
Or fear may lie beside you
Or it may slink down the hall

Chorus

Come and see how well despair
Is seasoned by the stifling air
See a ghetto in the good ol' sizzlin summertime
Suppose the streets were all on fire
Flames like tempers leaping higher
Suppose you lived there all your life
Do you think that you would mind?

Chorus
And it might begin to teach you
How to give a damn about your fellow man
And it might begin to reach you
Why we give a damn

Spoken:

"I think everybody is born naked. So we are all human. Until I find somebody who was born with clothes on I ain't gonna figure they are no more than me. That's the way I look at it."