Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:36:04 -0500
From: Trace Element 
Subject: j/jean_wyclef/gone_till_november.crd

Gone Till November
The Carnival
By Wyclef Jean
Transcribed by Jake Trevick
trace@imsa.edu

OK, so you wanna learn how to play this song.
You better note that I'm not including all the violin parts and the like.
This will make this version of the song sound a bit different than the
original, perhaps a bit more empty, but I added a chord for the verse
which does not exist in the original to fill out the sound, for you
purists, wyclef is basically fooling around with the intro form throughout
the verses.

This is what wyclef is playing while he talks
INTRO:
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e:----------0-0--------------0-0-----------------0----------
b:-------0------0----------------0------0-0-2-3----3---2-2--
g:-1-1-2----------1-1-2-2-1-1-------1-1---------0----0------
d:----------------------------------------------------------
a:----------------------------------------------------------
E:----------------------------------------------------------

e:-----0-----------------0-------------0--------------------
b:-0-0---0-----0-0-2-3-----3---3-2-0-0---0------------------
g:---------1-1---------0-----0-------------1----------------
d:-------------------------------------------2--------------
a:----------------------------------------------------------
E:----------------------------------------------------------

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Some chords that i just dont know the names of:

    E1                     E2          A1

----x------     -----------x-----------x--------------------
----3------     -----------2-----------x--------------------
----1------     -----------1-----------2--------------------
----2------     -----------2-----------1--------------------
----x------     -----------x-----------2--------------------
----x------     -----------x-----------x--------------------


Intro: (spoken)

I dedicate this record, "The Carnival" to all you brothers takin' long
trips down south, Virginia, Baltimore, all around the world, and your girl
gets this message that you ain't comin' back. She's sittin' back in the
room, the lights are off, she's cryin ', and then my voice comes in POW!,
in the middle of the night, and this is what I told her for you:

Chorus: (sung)
Emaj
Every time I make a run,
                          E1
girl, you turn around and cry
  E2         Emaj
I ask myself why, oh why
E1   E2            Emaj
See, you must understand,
                    E1
I can't work a 9 to 5
   E2          Emaj
So I'll be gone 'til November
None         E2
Said I'll be gone 'til November,
I'll be gone 'til November
Yo, tell my girl, yo, I'll be gone 'til November
Emaj
I'll be gone 'til November, I'll be gone 'til November
Yo, tell my girl, yo, I'll be gone 'til November
E2
January, February, March, April, May
I see you cryin', but girl, I can't stay
Emaj
I'll be gone 'til November, I'll be gone 'til November
A1(Let ring)
And give a kiss to my mother

Verse 1: (sung)
Emaj
When I come back, there'll be no need to clock
I'll have enough money to buy out blocks
Tell my brother, "Go to school in September"
So he won't mess up in summer school in the summer
E1                     E2
Tell my cousin, Jerry, wear his condom
Emaj
If he don't wear condom, he'll see a redrum
Woh oh oh oh
You sucker MC's, you got no flow
I heard your style,
you're s-o s-o

Chorus

Verse 2: (rap)
Emaj
I had to flip nuttin' and turn it into somethin'
Hip-hop turns to the future rock when I smash a punk (BING!)
E1                        E2
Commit treason, then I'll have a reason to hunt you down
Emaj
It's only right, it's rappin' season
Yeah, you with the loud voice, posin' like you're top choice
Your voice, I'll make a hearse out of your Rolls Royce
Besides, I got my girl to remember
And I'll commit it that I'll be back in November

Chorus

Emaj(fade)
I know the hustle's hard, but we gotta enterprise, the carnival