Key: E
Introduction:
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1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
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waiting for the great leap forwards
Here's the full thing
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It may have been camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
or on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
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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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2.
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in the Soviet Union, a scientist is blinded
by the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded *
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that Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
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at the first hurdle
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3.
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In the cheese pavilion, the only noise I hear
is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilled beer
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and someone asking questions and basking in the light
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of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
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4.
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Mixing pop and politics, he asks me what the use is
I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses *
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while looking down the corridor out to where the van is waiting
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I'm looking for the great leap forwards
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5.
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Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted
even after closing time, there's still parties to be hosted *
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you can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers
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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
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waiting for the great leap forwards
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well here comes the future and you cant run from it
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if you've got a blacklist I wanna be on it
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waiting for the great leap forwards
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well its a mighty long way down rock and roll
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from top of the pops to drawing the dole
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you're waiting for the great leap forwards
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if no-one out there understands
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start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
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waiting for the great leap forwards
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in a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
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but this is reality so give me some room
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waiting for the great leap forwards
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so join the struggle while you may
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the revolution is just a T-shirt away
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waiting for the great leap forwards
d is a downstroke
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the same fingering as the other lines of the verse, but move the end bit
all up one string
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Have fun
Nic