Bragg Billy

Bragg Billy - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards guitar tab

e: 13 Mar 1998 15:35:51 Z

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 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 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

Nic.Boulton@bn.cwplc.com

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