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Billy Bragg : Workers Playtime 1988

  1. She's Got A New Spell
  2. Must I Paint You A Picture?
  3. Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
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She's Got A New Spell

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What is that sound?
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Where is it coming from?
D
All around
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A
What are you running from
Bm
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D
Something you don't understand
G
Em
Something you cannot command
D
That's how I know
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A
She's got a new spell
D
Yes, that's how I know
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A
That she's got a new spell
D
What's going down
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Who's moved this room from round me
D
Where has it gone
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I fear this night will drown me
Bm
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D
So I lie awake all night
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Em
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'Cause I can't sleep with something I can't fight
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Bm
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The laws of gravity are very, very strict
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Bm
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And you're just bending them for your won benefit
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Bm
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Bm
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The laws of gravity are very, very strict
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And you're just bending them for your won benefit One minute she says
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She's gone to get the cat in
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The next thing I know
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She's mumbling in Latin
Bm
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She cut the starts out of the sky
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Em
And baked them in a pie
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That's how I know
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She's got a new spell
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Yes, that's how I know
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That she's got a new spell
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She stole the scene and the scenery
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The script and the machinery
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That's how I know
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She's got a new spell
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Yes, that's how I know
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Bm
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That she's got a new spell

Must I Paint You A Picture?

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Am
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It's bad timing and me
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We find a lot of things out this way
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And there's you, a little black cloud in a dress
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The temptation
Am
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To take the precious things we have apart
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To see how they work
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Must be resisted for they never fit together again
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If this is rain let it fall on me and drown me
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If these are tears let them fall
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Am
Must I paint you a picture
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About the way that I feel?
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You know that my love for you is strong, girl
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You know that my love for you is real
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It took a short walk and a talk
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C
To change the rules of engagement
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While you searched frantically for reverse
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And then claiming
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That virtue never tested is no virtue at all
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And so I lost my ignorance
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And now the bells across the river chime out your name
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I look across to them again Must I paint you a picture About the way that I feel? You know that my love for you is strong, girl You know that my love for you is real
Em
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All your friends say come down, it will never fly
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And on that imperfect day
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We threw it all away
Em
Am
Crisis after crisis, with such intensity
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This would never happen if we lived by the sea
C
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Most important decisions in life
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Are made between two people in bed
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I found that out at my own expense
C
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And when I see you
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You just turn around and walk away like we never met
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Oh we used to be so brave
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I dreamt the world stopped turning as we climbed the hill
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I dreamt impossible dreams that we were lovers still Must I paint you a picture About the way that I feel? You know that my love for you is strong, girl You know that my love for you is real

Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

Capo:
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It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline Or 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
F
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To sympathise with her
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Am
/g
But he thinks that he should warn her
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C
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 Doctor Robert Oppenheimer's Optimism fell At the first hurdle In the cheese pavilion, the only noise I hear Is the sound of someone stacking chairs and mopping up spilled 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 Oh, it's one leap forwards, two leaps back Will politics get me the sack? Waiting for the great leap forwards Well here comes the future and you can't run from it If you've got a blacklist I wanna be on it Waiting for the great leap forwards Well it's a mighty long way down rock and roll From Top Of The Pops to drawing the dole You're waiting for the great leap forwards If no one out there understands Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman Waiting for the great leap forwards In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room Waiting for the great leap forwards So join the struggle while you may The revolution is just a T-shirt away Waiting for the great leap forwards