Positively Bob Dylan - The Annotated Recordings
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
 Track 8      3.39 minutes
THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN
LYRICS & MUSIC BY BOB DYLAN
Introduction
Dylan 1. It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
When your rooster crows at the breaks of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm traveling on
Don't think twice, it's all right.
2. It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talking anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right.
3. It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
Like you never done before
It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinking and a-wond'rin' walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
Don't think twice, it's all right.
4. So long honey, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
Goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right.
Bridge  
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Close

Official Sony Music Lyrics at
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ANNOTATION
Source/Precedents
Comments
1. Political/Humour
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The Critics
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Notes
 
ALTERNATIVE RECORDINGS
Bob Dylan
#1 FREEWHEELIN' Track 8 
GREATEST HITS VOLUME 2 Disc 2 Track 2
THE BEST OF BOB DYLAN 1 Track 3
#2  BEFORE THE FLOOD  Disc 2 Track 1 
#3 BUDOKAN  Disc 2 Track 5 
#4
Other Artists
1. June and Johnny Cash : Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 196?
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For extensive information on alternate versions see Olof Björner's  excellent ... 
 It Ain’t Me, Babe
RECORDING DETAILS
Recorded: 14 November 1962
Release Date : 27 May 1963
Published :  
Studio:  Columbia Studio A, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Master Number: CO 77002-1
Take: 1
Producer: John Hammond
Engineer/s: 
Company: CBS
Record Number :
CD Number:
Record: Side B  Track 1  (27 May 1963)
CD: Track 8   (Date)
Time:  3.39 minutes
Musicians:
Bob Dylan Vocals/Guitar/Harmonica

All Recording Data usually from Record /Compact Disc Cover, and
Clinton Heylin, Dylan : Behind Closed Doors - The Recording Sessions 1960-1994 Penguin Books 1996

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