Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards (First Version)
 Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards First Version: chords and tabs for the song. Watch chords and tablatures for all songs of the singer (group) Billy Bragg. Other chords and tabs for the "Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards" can find at the bottom of the page. fret to be in key (E) with the recording. [intro]: C C/B Am 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------| [play twice] [verse part1]: C C/B Am G 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* [verse part2]: F G C C/B Am G 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 F G 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 [outro]: over the outro lines play [verse part 2]then [intro], for example: [<---------------verse part 2---------------------------->] F G C C/B Am G 1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack [<----verse part 2-------->][<-----------intro---------->] F G C C/B Am Am C C/B Am Am waiting for the great leap forwards Here's the full thing 1. [play verse part1] C C/B Am G 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] F G C C/B Am 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 C C/B Am Am C C/B Am Am 2. [play verse part1] C C/B Am G in the Soviet Union, a scientist is blinded [play verse part2] F G C C/B Am G that Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell F G [play intro] at the first hurdle C C/B Am Am C C/B Am 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 [play intro] of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer C C/B Am Am C C/B Am 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 [play intro] I'm looking for the great leap forwards C C/B Am Am C C/B Am 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 [play intro] waiting for the great leap forwards C C/B Am Am C C/B Am Am [outro]: 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 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 Am waiting for the great leap forwards F G well its a mighty long way down rock and roll C C/B Am G F G C [intro] C/B Am 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 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 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 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 |
