Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It may have been
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But on the Che Guevara highway
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filling up with gasoline
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Fidel Castro's brother spies
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a rich lady who's crying
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Over luxury's disappointment
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So he walks over and he's trying
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To sympathize with her but he thinks
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that he should warn her
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That the Third World is
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Union a scientist is blinded
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By the resumption of nuclear
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testing an d he is reminded
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That Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's
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optimism fell
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At the first hurdle
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Verse 3
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In the Cheese Pavilion and
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the only noise I hear
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Is the sound of someone stacking chairs
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And mopping up spilled beer
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And someone asking questions and
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basking in the light
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Of the fifteen fame-filled minutes minutes
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of the fanzine writer
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Verse 4
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Mixing pop and politics
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he asks me what the use is
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I offer him embarrassment
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and my usual excuses
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While looking down the corridor
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Out to where the van is waiting
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I'm looking for the great leap for
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ward
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Verse 5
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Jumble sales are organized
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And pamphlets have been posted
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Even after closing time there's
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still parties to be hosted
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You can be active with the activists
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Or sleep in with the sleepers
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While you're waiting for the
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great leap forwards
Verse 6
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Ah, one leap forward, two leaps back
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Will politics get me the sack?
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Waiting for the great leap forwards
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Well, here comes the future
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I want to be on it
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Waiting for the great leap forwards
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From "Top of the Pops" to
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drawing the dole
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You're waiting for the great
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leap forwards
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If no one out there understands
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cut out the middleman
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Waiting for the great leap forwards
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In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
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But this is reality so give
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Waiting for the great leap forwards
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So join the struggle while you may
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The revolution is just a t-shirt away
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away
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Waiting for the great leap
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forwards
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Waiting for the great leap
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forwards
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Waiting for the great leap
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forwards
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Waiting for the great leap forwards
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(Beam me up, Scotty) waiting for
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the great leap forwards
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Waiting for the great leap
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forwards
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Waiting for the great leap forwards
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Waiting for the great leap
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forwards
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Waiting for the great leap
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