Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

Words & Music:

Bob Dylan

 

There is an arrangement of this in the September 2006 issue of Acoustic Guitar in the original key of C.

 

G                  D7             Em    Em/D C                      G  D7

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe, if'n you don't know by now.

G                  D7             Em    Em/D A7                  D  D6  D7

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe, it'll never do, somehow.

          G                    G7             C                        A7

When your rooster crows at the break of dawn, look out your window and I'll be gone.

G          D7         Em       Em/D   C           D6          D7  G     D7

You're the reason I'm travellin' on.  Don't think twice, it's alright.

 

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe.  That light I never knowed.

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe.  I'm on the dark side of the road.

Still I wish there were something you would do or say

To try and make me change my mind and stay.

We never did too much talkin' anyway.  So, don't think twice, it's alright.

 

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal, like you never done before.

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal.  I can't hear you anymore.

I'm a-thinkin' and a-wonderin' all the way 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 alright.

 

I'm walkin' down that long lonesome road, babe.  Where I'm bound, I can't tell.

[alt:  So long, honey babe.  Where I'm bound, I can't tell.]

Goodbye is too good a word, gal.  So, I'll just say, "fare thee well".

I'm not sayin' 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 alright.