Billy Bragg – Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards (Guitar)
Capo 4
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar Tab
Guitar
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
Am (riff)
e|-------------------------|
B|-1--1--1-1-1-1--1--1-1-1-|
G|-2--2--0-2-0-2--2--0-2-0-|
D|-2--2--0-2-0-2--2--0-2-0-|
A|-0--0--0-0-0-0--0--0-0-0-|
E|-------------------------|[Intro]
C C/B Am (riff) C C/B Am (riff) x2
[Verse 1]
C C/B Am G It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline C C/B Am G But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline C C/B Am G Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying C C/B Am G Over luxury's disappointment so he walks over and he's trying F G C C/B Am G To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her F G C C/B Am (riff) C C/B Am (riff) That the Third World is just around the corner
[Verse 2]
C C/B Am G In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded C C/B Am G By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded F G C C/B Am G That Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell F G C C/B Am (riff) C C/B Am (riff) At the first hurdle
[Verse 3]
C C/B Am G In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear C C/B Am G Is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilt beer F G C C/B Am G And someone asking questions and basking in the light F G C C/B Am (riff) C C/B Am (riff) Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
[Verse 4]
C C/B Am G Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use is C C/B Am G I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses F G C C/B Am G While looking down the corridor out to the where the van is waiting F G C C/B Am (riff) C C/B Am (riff) I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards
[Verse 5]
C C/B Am G Jumble sales are organized and pamphlets have been posted C C/B Am G Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted F G C C/B Am G You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers F G C C/B Am G While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G One leap forward two leaps back C C/B Am G Will politics get me the sack? F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G Well here comes the future and you can't run from it C C/B Am G If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G It's a mighty long way down rock and roll C C/B Am G From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G If no one happens to understand C C/B Am G Just start your own revolution and cut out the middleman F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune C C/B Am G But this is reality so give me some room! F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G So join the struggle while you may C C/B Am G The revolution is just a T-shirt away F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (Beam me up Scotty!) F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards F G C C/B Am G Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards