Chords for Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

I'm going to finish off with a chance for you to sing along if you're in [Db] a kind of a sing-along mood
and it's that sort of yeah sort of a kind of Maoist kind of sing-along though but I'm not sure
how that clicks out down here in this in this neck of the woods so let me just put on my folk.
[F] I did a great thing last night I did a really brilliant thing at the end of this gig, my fourth
gig after I've been out for 18 hours in a different [Eb] time zone at the height of one of my songs, firing
away I ran across the stage trotted my guitar he pulled out the plug and went to absolute silence
it was a Tom and Jerry moment it really was you know Tom the cat stepping on the rake bang
audience loved it [Db] said to me do you do that every night how brilliant is that
it makes me [F] sick that kind of stuff.
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] This is for those of you still [D] waiting for the Great Leap Forward _
[F] It may have [D] been Camelot for Jack and [C] Jacqueline but [F] on the Hugo [C] Chavez highway
filling [D] up with cheap [C]
gasoline [F] little [C] Robert Leavitt spies [Dm] the rich lady [C] who's crying
[F] over luxury's [C] disappointment so he [D] walks over and he's [C] trying [Gm] to [Cm] sympathise with her
but he thinks that [A] he should warn her that the [Bb] third [C] world is just around the corner
[F] _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ In the former Soviet [C] Union [D] the citizens demand to [Am] know why they're still [C] the target of [Gm] strategic air [C] command
and [Bb] they shake their fists [C] in anger and respectfully [G] suggest we [A] take our money from our [C] missiles and spend it on [F] our hospitals [C] instead
How [Dm] does that sound brothers and sisters?
[F] _ [C] Socialised medicine for all, let's [Dm] hear it! _
_ The Cold War [C] now is over [Dm] but the stakes are [C] getting higher
[F] I'm frightened [C] of collateral damage [D] and a [C] friendly fire [Bb] and I don't [C] believe we can defeat no
[D] axis of evil by [Bb] putting smartphones [Cm] in the hands of [F] down people
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] Nixon, Pop and Politics, [D] they ask me what the use is [F] I offer up [C] my [D] acupuncture wrist at [C] my masseuses
[Bb] while looking down the [C] corridor [F] that's where [A] my mummy's waiting I am looking [C] for the new [F] world order
[C] _ _ [D] You know where you guys are in the new world order?
[F] _ [C] On participating with [Dm] democracy on voting
_ 18th, 19th, [C] it's really sad it really mean a lot [Dm] to us if this in this coming [F] election if kind of like
more than [C] 50 percent of you can bother to [D] turn out and vote it'll mean a lot to us and the rest of [F] the world
_ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [F] _ [C] Democracy is all about engagement brothers and sisters [Dm] let's see the polls
_ [F] Jumbo [C] sales are organised [D] all my mates got [F] faxed even [C] after all this time you [D] know you can still [C] send me a fax
[Bb] You can be active [C] with the activists or [D]
sleeping with the media [Bb] while you're waiting [C] for the great [F] leading forwards
[D] _ [Bb] I want to leap [C] forwards, two leaps back, while [D] mutton chop sideburns get me the [A] sack
[C] waiting for the great leap forwards yeah [A] buddy you know what I'm talking about
[Bb] well here comes [C] the future and you can't run from it [D] you've got a website I want to [A] be on it
waiting [G] for the great leap forward, now wait a minute South by Southwest special [Bb] books
here comes the future [C] and you can't run from it you've got [D] a tattoo on your bald head I want to be on [Bb] it
waiting [C] for the great leap forward, mighty _ [Bb] long way [C] down rock and roll from [D] top of the
pops to drawing the dough [Bb] and you're waiting for the [C] great leap [A]
forwards, [Bb] in a perfect world [C] we don't
sing in tune but this is reality [A] not American Idol, well you [C] know one day I hope I go [F] to a country
in the world and sing [A] that line and nobody understands [Bb] what I'm talking about [C] but that
horrible virus the herpes of American [Bb] Idol, Popeye, or X-Factor, [Cm] or whatever hasn't got there
[A]
but meanwhile brothers, enjoying the struggle [C] while you may, [F] the revolution's just an ethical
[G] haircut [C] away when you're [Bb] waiting [C] for the great leap [F] forward, _ my name's Billy Bragg, I'm from Barking, Essex
thanks very much, [C] great to be here, [N] 89.3, all those people up in Minnesota
it's freezing cold here in Austin, we're all wearing coats, it's snowing, you're right _ _ _