Play these chord shapes with a capo at the 4th
fret to be in key (E) with the recording.
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 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 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]:
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
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 G1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
[<----verse part 2-------->][<-----------intro---------->]
waiting 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 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 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
[play verse part1]
C C/B Am Gin 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 Gthat Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
F G [play intro]
at the first hurdle
3
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
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
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
Gwhile you're
F G [play intro]
waiting for the great leap forwards
[outro]:
oh 1 leap forwards 2 leaps back, will politics get me the sack
F G C intro C/B Am Amwaiting for the great leap forwards
F C
well here comes the future and you cant run from it
C C/B Am Gif you've got a blacklist I wanna be on it
waiting for the great leap forwards
well its a mighty long way down rock and roll
C 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 G
if no-one out there understands
start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
F G C intro C/B Am Amwaiting for the great leap forwards
F G
in a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
C C/B Am Gbut this is reality so give me some room
waiting for the great leap forwards
so join the struggle while you may
C 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 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
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