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Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

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Introdução:

 F                             G                                     C   C/B           Am           G 
1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
 F                             G                     C             C/B  Am     C  C/B  Am 
waiting for the great leap forwards
Here's the full thing
                   C                                 C/B                     Am                             G 
                  It may have been camelot for     Jack and     Jacqueline
or on the Che Guevara       highway filling up with         gasoline
           F                           G                     C                 C/B             Am 
to sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her
 G                 F                           G 
that the third world is just around the corner
 C   C/B   Am           C   C/B   Am 
2.
                 C                         C/B                       Am                     G 
                in the Soviet Union,         a scientist is blinded
by the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded *
             F                       G                         C     C/B     Am     G 
that Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
 F   G 
          at the first hurdle
 C   C/B   Am           C   C/B   Am 
3.
                 C                             C/B                                 Am                                 G 
                In the cheese pavilion,                 the only noise I             hear
is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilled beer
           F                           G                         C         C/B           Am 
and someone asking questions and basking in the light
 G           F                                       G 
of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer
 C   C/B   Am           C   C/B   Am 
4.
       C                           C/B                               Am                               G 
      Mixing pop and politics,             he asks me what the use is
I offer     him     embarrassment and my usual                     excuses *
               F                             G                                 C             C/B         Am       G 
while looking down the corridor out to where the van is waiting
           F                           G 
I'm looking for the great leap forwards
 C   C/B   Am           C   C/B   Am 
5.
 C                               C/B                                             Am                               G 
Jumble sales are organised and                   pamphlets have been posted
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
 G 
while you're
 F                             G 
waiting for the great leap forwards
       F                             G                                   C     C/B           Am         G 
oh 1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
     F                           G                     C[intrº]  C/B   Am 
waiting for the great leap forwards
             F                                                         C 
well here comes the future and you cant run from it
       C                       C/B                 Am             G 
if you've got a blacklist I wanna be on it
     F                           G                     C[intrº]  C/B   Am 
waiting for the great leap forwards
                         F                                       G 
well its a mighty long way down rock and roll
           C                   C/B             Am               G 
from top of the pops to drawing the dole
                   F                           G                     C[intrº]  C/B   Am 
you're waiting for the great leap forwards
       F                               G 
if no-one out there understands
                         C           C/B               Am                     G 
start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
     F                           G                     C[intrº]  C/B   Am 
waiting for the great leap forwards
             F                                           G 
in a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
             C           C/B               Am                     G 
but this is reality so give me some room
     F                           G                     C[intrº]  C/B   Am 
waiting for the great leap forwards
         F                                   G 
so join the struggle while you may
                   C               C/B       Am               G 
the revolution is just a T-shirt away
     F                           G                     C[intrº]  C/B   Am 
waiting for the great leap forwards
d is a downstroke

      C 
the same fingering as the other lines of the verse, but move the end bit
all up one string

        F 
Have fun
Nic