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[verse part1]:
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[verse part2]:
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e ------1--------------------- ------1---0---------0------- ----2------0--------0---0--- --3--------0------------0--- A ------------0-----2------0-- [play intro riff twice] ---------------3------------ 3rd wld is jstaround the corner
[outro]:
over the outro lines play [verse part 2]then [intro], for example:
[:---------------verse part 2----------------------------:]
1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
[:----verse part 2--------:][:-----------intro----------:]
waiting for the great leap forwards
Here's the full thing
1. [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
[play verse part2]
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
2. [play verse part1]
in the Soviet Union, a scientist is blinded by the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded*
[play verse part2]
that Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell F G [play intro] at the first hurdle
3.
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 G F G [play intro] of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
4.
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 F G [play intro] I'm looking for the great leap forwards
5.
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 F G [play intro] waiting for the great leap forwards
[outro]:
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
well here comes the future and you cant run from it
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
well its a mighty long way down rock and roll
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
if no-one out there understands
start your own revolution and cut out the middleman F G C [intro] C/B Am Am 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 F G C [intro] C/B Am Am waiting for the great leap forwards
so join the struggle while you may
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 - xx3211 - F
