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- From Workers' Playtime. Play these chord shapes with a capo at the 4thfret to be in key (E) with the recording.
- [intro]:C C/B Ame ----------------------------------------------------------------
- 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 Ge -----------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 theche gue-va-ra hi-way fillinup w gas--o-line
- fi-del castsbrother s a rchlady w crying overlux--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 theF 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:
- []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 Am C C/B Am Amwaiting for the great leap forwards
- Here's the full thing
- 1.[play verse part1]
- C C/B Am GIt may have been camelot for Jack and Jacquelineor on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
- Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying overluxury's disappointment so he walks over and he's trying
- [play verse part2]F G C C/B Amto 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 blindedby the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded*
- [play verse part2]F G C C/B Am Gthat 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 GIn the cheese pavilion, the only noise I hear
- is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilled beerF G C C/B Am
- and someone asking questions and basking in the lightG 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 GMixing pop and politics, he asks me what the use isI offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses*
- F G C C/B Am Gwhile 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 GJumble 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 sleepersGwhile 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 sackF G C [intro] C/B Am Amwaiting for the great leap forwards
- F Cwell here comes the future and you cant run from it
- C C/B Am Gif you've got a blacklist I wanna be on itF G C [intro] C/B Am Am
- waiting for the great leap forwardsF G
- well its a mighty long way down rock and rollC C/B Am Gfrom top of the pops to drawing the dole
- F G C [intro] C/B Am Amyou're waiting for the great leap forwards
- F Gif no-one out there understandsC C/B Am G
- start your own revolution and cut out the middlemanF G C [intro] C/B Am Amwaiting for the great leap forwards
- F Gin a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
- C C/B Am Gbut this is reality so give me some roomF G C [intro] C/B Am Am
- waiting for the great leap forwardsF G
- so join the struggle while you mayC C/B Am Gthe revolution is just a T-shirt away
- F G C [intro] C/B Am Amwaiting for the great leap forwards
- d is a downstrokeu 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 bethe same fingering as the other lines of the verse, but move the end bitall up one string
- chords
- EADGBex32010 - Cx20010 - C/B
- x02210 - Am320003 - Gxx3211 - F
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Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
