From: isocrtes@selway.umt.edu (Benjamin W Reed)
Subject: CRD & lyrics for Great Leap Forwards

Someone wanted the complete lyrics to Billy Bragg's
"Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards," so here they are...

In case y'all missed them at the time, the chords, as put down
heretofore by producer@aol.com, are these:

       (twice, or as needed)
          

Transcribed by the too, too solid flesh of Ben Reed;
     (flames to him at the above address,
          and as above, so below...)
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It may have be

             
en Camelot for

             
 Jack and Jacq

  
ueline
             
But on the Che

             
 Guevara highw

             
ay filling up 

         
with gasoline
             
Fidel Castro's

             
 brother spies

             
 a rich lady w

     
ho's crying
             
Over luxury's 

     
disappointment
             
So he walks ov

            
er and he's tr

ying
             
To sympathise 

             
with her but h

             
e thinks that 

          
he should warn

 her
             
That the Third

             
 World is just

            
 around the co

rner

In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle

In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear
Is the sound of people stacking chairs
And mopping up spilt beer
And someone asking questions and basking in the light
Of the fifteen fame filled minutes of the fanzine writer

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 the where the van is waiting
I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards

Jumble sales are organized 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 waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

(All below follow -----E)

One leap forward two leaps back
Will politics get me the sack?
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

Here comes the future and you can't run from it
If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

It's a mighty long way down rock nd roll
From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

If no one happens to understand
Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

So join the struggle while you may
The revolution is only a T-shirt away
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (repeat as necessary)


             I haven't a clue whst this song is but I'm sure it's
great!!! Billy Bragg by the way!!!


             
Mixing pop and

         
 politics they

 
 ask me what t

he use is I
offer them etc....

chorus

             
and Meanwhile 

             
 Dr Oppeinhiem

        
ers optimism  

 
 fell

    waiting 4 the Great leap    foward.....

i think its a Cmaj9 this is the TAB for it anyway

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