Waiting for the

From: isocrtes@selway.umt.edu (Benjamin W Reed)
 Subject: CRD & lyrics for Great Leap Forwards
 
 Someone wanted the complete lyrics to Billy Bragg’s 
 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards, so here they are...
 
 In case y’all missed them at the time, the chords, as put down
 Heretofore by producer@aol.com, are these:
 
 E  B  A  B (twice, or as needed)
 A  B  E  A  B  E
 
 Transcribed by the too, too solid flesh of Ben Reed;
      (flames to him at the above address, 
           and as above, so below...)
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 E                B           A              B
 It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
            E           B               A           B             
 But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
 E              B               A               B
 Fidel Castro’s brother spies a rich lady who’s crying
      E             B
 Over luxury’s disappointment
             A             B
 So he walks over and he’s trying
    A               B          E                     A
 To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
          A               B              E   
 That the Third World is just around the corner
 
 In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
 By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
 That Dr. Robert Oppenheimer’s optimism fell
 At the first hurdle
 
 In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
 Is the sound of people stacking chairs
 And mopping up spilt beer
 And someone asking questions and basking in the light
 Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
 
 Mixing Pop and Politics he asks me what the use is
 I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses
 While looking down the corridor
 Out to the where the van is waiting
 I’m looking for the Great Leap Forwards
 
 Jumble sales are organized and pamphlets have been posted
 Even after closing time there’s still parties to be hosted
 You can be active with the activists 
 Or sleep in with the sleepers
 While you’re waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
 
 (All below follow A-B-E-A-B-E)
 
 One leap forward two leaps back
 Will politics get me the sack?
 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
 
 Here comes the future and you can’t run from it
 If you’ve got a blacklist I want to be on it
 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
 
 It’s a mighty long way down rock nd roll
 From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
 
 If no one happens to understand
 Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman
 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
 
 So join the struggle while you may
 The revolution is only a T-shirt away
 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (repeat as necessary)
 
 
  
 
              I haven’t a clue whst this song is but I’m sure it’s
 Great!!! Billy Bragg by the way!!!
  
  
 C              Cmaj9         Am
 Mixing pop and politics they ask me what the use is I
 Offer them etc....
  
 Chorus
  
     F             G             C   Cmaj9  Am
 And Meanwhile  Dr Oppeinhiemers optimism   fell
  
     waiting 4 the Great leap    foward.....
  
 I think its a Cmaj9 this is the TAB for it anyway
  
 E -0
 B -1
 G -0
 D -0
 A -3
 E -0