Chords for Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forward - 3/15/2013 - Stage On Sixth

I'm going to give you a bit of the old time [Gb] religion now.
Waiting for the great leap forward.
Yeah!
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[Eb] It may have [D] been Camelot [C] for Clegg and [Bb] Cameron
[C] But [Eb] on Boris [Dm] Johnson Boulevard there's [Cm] not much business [Bb] going on
_ [Eb] _ Public [Bb] servants marching, _ [Cm] factories [Bb] are failing
_ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] Everybody's angry, _ [Cm] Europeans need [Bb] help bailing
[Ab] Things have not been [Bb] this bad [Eb] since the days of [Cm] Margaret Thatcher
So [Ab] keep calm and [Bb] carry on [Eb] watching X-Factor
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_ [Cm] _ _ Sacrilege! _
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The former [Bb] Soviet Union, [Cm] the citizens _ [Bb] demand
To [Eb] know why they're [Gm] still the target of [Cm] strategic air [Bb] command
And [Ab] they shake their [Bb] fists in anger
And [Cm] respectfully [C] suggest you [Bb] take [Ab] the money from your drone [Bb] strikes
And spend it on [Eb] health care instead
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_ [Cm] _ _ _ If you can [Eb] deliver death from the sky
Why [Bb] can't you deliver life [Cm] from the sky?
That's what I want to know _
_ [Eb] High up in [Bb] the stock [C] exchange, they're knocking back [Bb] the shampoos
[Eb] _ Outside [Dm] down on Wall Street, [C] being occupied [Bb] by campers
[Ab] Who want to [Bb] ask some questions [Eb] about
Why do [C] we do business [Ab] in the twilight [Bb] of the capitalist [Eb] _ _ [Bb] system? _ _
[Cm] Yeah! _ _ _ _
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[Eb] The World Wide Web is [G] wonderful if [C] you've got something [Bb] to sell
But [Eb] opinions [Dm] often summon up [Cm] a focus group [Bb] from hell
It's [Ab] best not to be [Bb] distracted and stay [Dm] focused on your [Bb] goals
And [Ab] take my advice, [Bb] don't feed the trolls _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ Start the little bastards!
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[Eb] Jumble sales are [Bb] organised [C] and charity [Bb] shops open
_ [D]
Tourists keep on [Dm] telling us [C] it's Britain that is [Bb] broken
Time to get [Ab]
active [Bb] with the activists
[G] So switch [C] off World of Warcraft [Ab] and start working
[Bb] For the great [Eb] leap [C] forwards
[Cm] _ _ _ [Ab] One leap [Bb] forward, two leaps back
[Eb] Time to [Cm] give Rick [Bb] Perry the sack
[Ab] Waiting [Bb] for the great [Gm] leap _ forwards
_ [Ab] But if no one out [Bb] there understands
[Eb] Start your own [C] occupation and cut out on little [Ab] man
Waiting [Bb] for the great leap [Gm] forwards _
[Cm] _ [Bb] In [Ab] a perfect world we're all [Bb] singing in tune
But this is [Bb] South by South [Gm] West, give me a break, come on
[Ab] Waiting [Bb] for the great leap [C] forwards _
[Gm] It's [Ab] a mighty long [Bb] way down rock and [Eb] roll
And they've shut off 8th Street [Cm] and 7th Street and [Bb] 6th Street [Ab] and 5th Street
Waiting [Bb] for the great [Eb] leap forwards
_ [Cm] _ [Bb]
Some [Ab] people [Bb] say women should keep [Eb] quiet
I just [Cm] say, free pussy [Ab] riots!
[Bb] Waiting for the great [Cm] leap _ forwards
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[Ab] So join the struggle [Bb] while you may
[Eb] The revolution's [Dm] just a [Cm] _ wristband [Bbm] away _ _
That's not strictly true actually
In fact when the revolution comes
they're going to be looking for people wearing wristbands
So [Abm] I'll take them off when you get on
When you [Ab] wait [Bb] for the great _ [Eb] leap forwards
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_ It's another great time here [Cm] with you at the Pace Party
I want to thank our friends from Pace [B] for inviting us down here
The good people from [Ab] Cooking Vinyl and everybody else
[G] What a lovely, lovely end of [Gb] festival for me show That [N] is _