Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards Lyrics

fret to be in key (E) with the recording.
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G -------0-------------0--------------2--0h2--0h2-2--0h2----------|
D -------2-------------0--------------2--0h2--0h2-2--0h2----------|
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verse part1
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e -----------d--u---------d--u-------d---u-------------------------|
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
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sympthze her but he thinks he shld warn her that the
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3rd wld is jstaround the corner
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verseintro 2
over the outro lines play then , for example:
1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
waiting for the great leap forwards
Here's the full thing
play verse part1
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
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to sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
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that the third world is just around the corner
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in the Soviet Union, a scientist is blinded
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that Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
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at the first hurdle
In the cheese pavilion, the only noise I hear
is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilled beer
and someone asking questions and basking in the light
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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 where the van is waiting
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I'm looking for the great leap forwards
Jumble sales are organised 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
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waiting for the great leap forwards
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oh 1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
waiting for the great leap forwards
well here comes the future and you cant run from it
if you've got a blacklist I wanna be on it
waiting for the great leap forwards
well its a mighty long way down rock and roll
you're waiting for the great leap forwards
if no-one out there understands
start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
waiting for the great leap forwards
in a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
but this is reality so give me some room
waiting for the great leap forwards
so join the struggle while you may
the revolution is just a T-shirt away
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
verse part 1
* at the end of the last line of , 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
Have fun
Nic