Billy Bragg performs 'Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards' Chords

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Yeah.
_ _ _ _ Yes, they've given me _ _ 45 minutes.
They're trying to intimidate me by use of quarters
of hours.
It's really hard.
_ _ Do you rock out for 40 minutes?
Not quite long enough for
me to indulge myself, but not quite short enough for me to just come out and fire them
off without doing anything.
So _ we could go long, we could go short, we could go sideways.
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_ [F] It may have [C] been Camelot [D] for Jack and [C] Jacqueline, [F] but on the Hugo [G] Chavez highway [Dm] filling up
with [C] gasoline, [F] little [G] Donald Rumsfeld [Dm] spies a rich lady [C] who's crying.
[F] Oh, the [D] luxury's
an appointment.
So he [Dm] walks over and [C] he's trying [Bb] to [C] sympathize with her, [Dm] but he thinks
[D] that he should warn her [Bb] to prepare to [C] be bombed back into [F] the stone [C] age.
_ [Dm] Not much of a foreign
policy that guy.
I think [F] you might want to _
[C] see [Dm] a floor in that.
_ _ [F] In the former [D] Soviet
Union, the citizens [C] demand to [Dm] know why they're [D] still the target of strategic air [C] commands.
[Bb] They shake their [C] fists in anger [Dm] and respectfully [D] suggest we [Bb] take the money from our [C] missiles
and spend it on [F] our hospitals [C] instead.
Yeah.
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_ _ [F] It's in pop and politics.
[Dm] They ask me, what
do [C] you see?
[F] I offer [Em] them my [D] acupuncturist and [C] my masseuses [Bb] while looking down [C] the corridor.
[F] Out to where my [Dm] Ingo is [Bb] waiting, I'm looking [C] for the new [F] world order.
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[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ Jumbo [Em] sales are organized.
[D] All my [C] mates got VAC.
[F] Even after all this time, you know, [D] you can still
[C] send me a fax.
You [Bb] can be active [C] with the activists or sleeping with the media [Bb] while you're waiting
[C] for the great [Dm] leap _ [D] forwards.
[Bb] Ah, one [C] leap forwards, two leaps [F] back.
Will YouTube give MTV the [Bb] sack?
I'm kind [C] of hoping that's the way it sort of [F] pans out.
[Dm] It's just so more democratic, [Bb] isn't it?
[C] Bulls and bears, bulls [F] and bears.
Is there anyone out there with oil, [Bb] sand, shares waiting
[C] for the great [Am] leap [D] forwards?
[Bb] In a perfect [C] world, we'd all sing in tune, but this is Sunday,
not bloody American Idol.
[Bb] Give me a break.
[C] Waiting for the great [G] leap forwards.
[D] _ [Bb] Well, here comes the [C] future and you can't run from it.
If you've got a MySpace site, I want to be [Bb] on it. _
[C] It's all the [F] friends I have these days on the [Dm] road.
[Bb] So join the struggle [C] while you may.
The [Dm] revolution's just an [Em] ethical haircut [G] away.
[Bb] When you're waiting [G] for the great leap [F] _ _ forwards.
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_ _ [N] _ _ There are people who love the United States of America but disagree vehemently with what the Bush administration have done.
And because we love America, we have a right to do that.
And to me, _ a patriot is someone who gives a shit
about what happens in their country.
And I see those angry Americans who don't like what's happening,
_ both here in America and also in terms of foreign policy.
I see those people as the true patriots.
And I'm trying to redefine that word.
The book is called The Progressive Patriot.
I'm trying to reclaim and redefine that word [D] for those of us who care and aren't prepared to be complacent
about what's happening in our countries. _ _
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