Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards Chords by Billy Bragg

Tonight on the Henry Rollins show we sit down with actor director Steve Buscemi to discuss his new film
Interview and America's fascination with celebrity and later an exclusive musical performance from legendary songwriter Billy Bragg
It's gonna be a great show folks.
[B] Stay right here _
_ _ [D] _ [B] Tonight's musical guest is Billy Bragg the first time I saw Billy Bragg play was
23 years ago and the quality of the man's work and his motivation for getting out there and doing it has never dipped or wavered
Whenever I see him play it reminds me of what the music business is supposed to be all about
Here to play waiting for the great leap forward from his workers playtime album recently re-released on his volume 2 box set
Here's Billy Bragg live and uncut
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [F] [C] Some people sing about love
[D] Some people sing about war
_ [F] [C] Some people sing about [Dm] a better world to come
_ _ [F] Well, I [Em] sing about all three and this is [D] my theme song waiting for the great leap forward
[F] It [C] may have been [D] Camelot for Jack [C] and Jacqueline
[F] But on the Hugo [Am] Chavez highway [D] filling up with [C] gasoline
[F] Little [Em] Donald [D] rumsville spies a rich [C] lady who's crying [F] over
[C] Luxury's disappointment.
So [D] he walks over and [C] he's trying
[Bb] to [C] sympathize with her
[F] [Em] Thinks that [D] he should [C] warn her [Bb] to prepare to [C] be bombed back into [F] the star
[C] In [D] _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [F] the former [C] Soviet Union
[D] the citizens [C] demands [F] to know why [C] they're still the target [D] of
strategic [C] air command [Bb] and they shake their [C] fists in anger [F] and
[Em] Respectfully [D] suggest [C] we [Bb] take the money from our [C] missiles and spend on [F] our hospitals [C] instead
The [D] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [F] Cold War [C] now is over, [D] but the stakes are [C] getting higher
[F] I'm frightened [Am] of collateral damage [D] and a friendly [C] fire
And [Bb] I don't believe [C] we can defeat [F] no
[Am] Axis [D] of evil [C] by [Bb] putting smart bombs [C] in the hands of [F] dumb people
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ _
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F] Mixing pop and [Em] politics.
[D] They asked me what the [C] use is
[F] I offer [Em] my [D] acupuncturist my
[C] masseuses [Bb] while looking down the [C] corridor
[F] That's where [Em] my [D] ego [C] is waiting.
[Bb] I'm looking [C] for the new [Dm] world [Am] order
_ _ [D] _
Jumble _ [G] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [F] _ [C] sales are organized
[D] All my [C] mates got back
[F] Even after [C] all this time
[D] You can still [C] send me a fax.
You [Bb] can be active [C] with the acts of [F] this soul
[Am]
[D] Sleeping with the [C] media [Bb] while you're [C] waiting for the great [F] leap [C] forward [C] Yeah
[Bb] One [C] leap forward two leaps [F] back.
Will [C] YouTube give [C] MTV the sack?
[Bb] [C] waiting for the great leap forwards
[C] [Bb] Well, it comes [C] the future and you can't run [F] from it [C] you've got a [D] tattoo Henry [C] I want to be on [Bb] it mate
waiting [C] for the great leap forward
[Dm] _ [C] [Bb] In a perfect world [C] we'd all sing in tune, [F] but this is [C] reality [D] not [C] American Idol
[Bb] waiting for [C] the great leap [C] forwards
[C] So [Bb] join the struggle [C] while you may
[F] The revolutions [Em] just an [D] ethical hair [C] cut away
When [Bb] you're waiting for [C] the great leap
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _