Billy Bragg - Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (Official Video)

A heartfelt call to join the struggle for a better world - `You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers’. The classic video features some early photo bombing as Billy joins political figures from Kennedy to Castro onstage.

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Lyrics: It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline Fidel Castro's brother spies a rich lady who's crying Over luxury's disappointment So he walks over and he's trying To sympathise with her but he thinks that he should warn her That the Third World is just around the corner.

In the Soviet Union a scientist is blinded By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded That Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell At the first hurdle.

In the Cheese Pavilion and the only noise I hear Is the sound of someone stacking chairs And mopping up spilt beer And someone asking questions and basking in the light Of the fifteen fame-filled minutes of the fanzine writer.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses While looking down the corridor Out to where the van is waiting I'm looking for the Great Leap Forwards.

Jumble sales are organised and pamphlets have been posted Even after closing time there's still parties to be hosted You can be active with the activists Or sleep in with the sleepers While you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

One leap forward, two leaps back Will politics get me the sack?

Here comes the future and you can't run from it If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it.

It's a mighty long way down rock 'n roll From Top of the Pops to drawing the dole.

If no one seems to understand Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.

In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room.

So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a T-shirt away. Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

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