Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards chords by Billy Bragg

Capo on the 4th fret


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
To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
     F        G       C
That the Third World is just around the corner

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
That Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
 F     G       C
At the first hurdle


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In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
C            C/B         Am       G
Is the sound of people stacking chairs and mopping up spilt beer
  F        G       C      C/B     Am
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
   F        G       C
Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer


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
While looking down the corridor out to the where the van is waiting
 F        G       C
I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards


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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
You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers
 F             G       C
While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

F        G
One leap forward two leaps back
 C      C/B     Am
Will politics get me the sack?
 F        G       C
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

F               G
Here comes the future and you can't run from it
 C      C/B     Am
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
 F        G       C
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

F               G
It's a mighty long way down rock nd roll
    C      C/B     Am
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
 F        G       C
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

F            G
If no one happens to understand
      C      C/B     Am
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman
 F        G       C
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

F            G
So join the struggle while you may
 C      C/B     Am
The revolution is only a T-shirt away
 F        G       C
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards