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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the# #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.# #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# Date: 13 Mar 1998 15:35:51 Z From: "Boulton, Nic"Subject: TAB:/b/Bragg_Billy/Waiting_for_the_Great_Leap_Forwards.tab >From Workers' Playtime. Play these chord shapes with a capo at the 4th 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 2then 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 by the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded* 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 from top of the pops to drawing the dole 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 [email protected]
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