Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards 1

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  • From Workers' Playtime. Play these chord shapes with a capo at the 4th
    fret to be in key (E) with the recording.
     
  • [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]
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    [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*
     
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    [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
     
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    Here's the full thing
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    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
     
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    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
     
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    alternate lyrics:
     
  • When playing this live Billy changes often changes the words, here's some
    of the alternate lyrics he was doing 1993-6
     
  •  
    verse one
    Fidel Castro's Brother spies / Lee-Harvey Oswald's brother spies
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    so he walks over and he's trying/so he calls her on his carphone
     
  • that the 3rd world is just around the corner/3rd world war has already
    started in Europe
     
  • verse 2
    A scientist is blinded/ an economist is blinded
     
  • by the resumption of nuclear testing/ by the lure of the free market
    system
     
  • Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell/ Dr. Oppenheimer nearly
    invented the atom bomb
     
  • at the first hurdle/ but isn't captalism interesting when you've only got
    roubles to spend
     
  •  
    verse 3
    stacking chairs/stacking cheese
  •  
    15 fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer/15 fame filled minutes of
    the stage diver
  •  
    verse4
    embarrasment and my usual excuses/ my acupuncturist and some fruit juices
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    where the van is waiting/where my limo is waiting
     
  • great leap forwards/new world order
     
    verse5
  • pamplets have been posted/all my friends were sacked
     
    even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted/ even after
  • all this time you can still send me a fax
     
    sleep in with the sleepers/ sleep in with the media
  •  
     
    outro
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    blacklist, I'd like to be on it/ hitlist, I'd like to be on it/ mat down
    there I'd like to be on it
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    start your own revolution and cut out the middleman/I think that
    ramraiding has a special place in social change
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    /well I really always wanted to be quite famous, but I don't want to be
    on your security cameras
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    the revolution is just a T-shirt away/ the revolution is just a Pele
    T-shirt away
  •  
    Plus these from Ron McBay's BB homepage:
     
  • verse 1
    But he thinks that he should warn her That her husband Jim'll probably
    have to do all 45 years of his sentence.
  •  
    outro
    You can be active with the activists or sleep in with Rob Lowe
  •  
    Well it's all very good to say that you're sorry, but I really don't
    believe you, Ollie
  •  
    Salmon Rushdie proves that you have to be careful, for those who burn
    books will later burn people
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    If you've got a blacklist I wanna be on it, it's better than a Grammy
    with my name on it
  •  
    Does anybody know any more ?
     
  • 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
     
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