Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

>From Workers' Playtime. Play these chord shapes with a capo at the 4th

fret to be in key (E) with the recording.

:

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 ----------------------------------------------------------------

:

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*

:

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

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

:

over the outro lines play [verse part 2]then [intro], for example:

1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack

[<-----------intro---------->]

waiting for the great leap forwards

Here's the full thing

1.

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

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.

in the Soviet Union, a scientist is blinded

by the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded*

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

 

:

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 - G

xx3211 - F

Have fun

Nic

Nic.Boulton@bn.cwplc.com