Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice It's All Right Lyrics

Bob Dylan Lyrics

"Don't Think Twice It's All Right"

Well, it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If'n you don't know by now
And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It'll never do somehow

When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window, and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm a-traveling on
But don't think twice, it's all right

And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
The 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
But we never did too much talking anyway
But don't think twice, it's all right

So it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
Like you never done before
And it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more

I'm a-thinking and a-wonderin' walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

So long honey, baby
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 a-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

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Thanks to Joey S, M.D. for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Bob Dylan

This song was written by Bob Dylan after his girlfriend Suze Rotolo moved to Italy to study at the university leaving him in New York. Only he made it look in a song as if it was he who left her. By the way, Rotolo is pictured walking with Dylan on the cover of this album.

Bob Dylan said about this track, "A lot of people make it sort of a love song - slow and easygoing. But it isn't a love song. It's a statement that maybe you can say something to make yourself feel better. It's as if you were talking to yourself."

This song was released as a single by "Wonder Who?" in 1965. The joke is that The Four Seasons, being at the peak of their popularity with "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You", decided to record a song to see if they could make a hit without a big name on it. They could: the single climbed to number 12 in the USA.

The "When your rooster crows at the break of dawn" line was explained by Suze Rotolo in her memoir: she and Bob Dylan used to live near a poultry supplier in Greenwich Village and heard roosters in the morning when they stayed up all night sometimes.