Billy Bragg – Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards (Guitar Tab)

[intro]:
     C            C/B          Am
e ----------------------------------------------------------------|
B -------1-------------1--------------1--1----1---1--1------------|
G -------0-------------0--------------2--0h2--0h2-2--0h2----------|
D -------2-------------0--------------2--0h2--0h2-2--0h2----------|
A ---3----------3-2----------2-0----------------------------------|
E ----------------------------------------------------------------|
[play twice]

[verse part1]:
     C             C/B         Am          G
e -----------d--u---------d--u-------d---u-------------------------|
B -----------1--1---------1--1-------1---1-------------------------|
G -----------0--0---------0--0-------2---2-------------------------|
D -------2---2--2-----0---0--0----2--2---2-------------------------|
A ---3-------------2-----------0-------------0--2--0---------------|
E -----------------------------------------3-----------------------|
    it  may've bn cam-e--lot f Jk &  Jk--a-lyn---------------------|       but on the
   che  gue-va-ra hi-way fillinup w gas----------------------------|o-line
    fi-del   castsbrother s  a rchlady   w crying   over
   lux--rys dis-a-pointment shwover &   hes trying*

[verse part2]:
    F         G             C     C/B     Am       G
e ------1----------------------------------------------------------|
B ------1--1-------0--------1-----1-------1---------0--------------|
G ----2----2-------0--0-----0-----0-------2---------0--------------|
D --3-----------------0-----2-----0-------2---------0--------------|
A --------------2-----------3-----2-------0---------2--------------|
E ------------3-------------------------------------3--------------|
   sympthze  her  but he  thinks he shld warn her that the

    F            G
e ------1---------------------|
B ------1---0---------0-------|
G ----2------0--------0---0---|
D --3--------0------------0---|
A ------------0-----2------0--| [play intro riff twice]
E ---------------3------------|
    3rd wld  is jstaround the corner

[outro]: over the outro lines play [verse part 2]then [intro], for example: [<---------------verse part 2---------------------------->] F G C C/B Am G 1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack [<----verse part 2-------->][<-----------intro---------->] F G C C/B Am Am C C/B Am Am waiting for the great leap forwards Here's the full thing 1. [play verse part1] C C/B Am G It may have been camelot for Jack and Jacqueline or on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying over luxury's disappointment so he walks over and he's trying [play verse part2] F G C C/B Am to sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her G F G [play intro] that the third world is just around the corner C C/B Am Am C C/B Am Am 2. [play verse part1] C C/B Am G in the Soviet Union, a scientist is blinded by the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded* [play verse part2] F G C C/B Am G that Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell F G [play intro] at the first hurdle C C/B Am Am C C/B Am Am 3. C C/B Am G In the cheese pavilion, the only noise I hear is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilled beer F G C C/B Am and someone asking questions and basking in the light G F G [play intro] of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer C C/B Am Am C C/B Am Am 4. C C/B Am G Mixing pop and politics, he asks me what the use is I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses* F G C C/B Am G while looking down the corridor out to where the van is waiting F G [play intro] I'm looking for the great leap forwards C C/B Am Am C C/B Am Am 5. C C/B Am G Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted even after closing time, there's still parties to be hosted* F G C C/B Am you can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers G while you're F G [play intro] waiting for the great leap forwards C C/B Am Am C C/B Am Am [outro]: F G C C/B Am G oh 1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack F G C [intro] C/B Am Am waiting for the great leap forwards F C well here comes the future and you cant run from it C C/B Am G if you've got a blacklist I wanna be on it F G C [intro] C/B Am Am waiting for the great leap forwards F G well its 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 [intro] C/B Am Am you're waiting for the great leap forwards F G if no-one out there understands C C/B Am G start your own revolution and cut out the middleman F G C [intro] C/B Am Am 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 [intro] C/B Am Am 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 [intro] C/B Am Am waiting for the great leap forwards d is a downstroke u is an upstroke (kind of a lazy, incidental one) h is a hammer on * at the end of the last line of [verse part 1], the walk up from the G to the C *might* be replaced by a walk up from a C to an F, so it'd be the same fingering as the other lines of the verse, but move the end bit all up one string chords EADGBe x32010 - C x20010 - C/B x02210 - Am 320003 - G xx3211 - F Have fun Nic [email protected]