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‘’Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962, and released on the 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
Dylan once introduced “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” as “a statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better… as if you were talking to yourself.” The song, written around the time that Suze Rotolo indefinitely prolonged her stay in Italy, is based on a melody taught to Dylan by folksinger Paul Clayton. NPR’s Tim Riley described the song as “the last word in a long, embittered argument, a paper-thin consolation sung with spite.”
As well as the melody, a couple of lines were taken from Clayton’s “Who’s Goin’ to Buy You Ribbons When I’m Gone?” which was recorded in 1960, two years before Dylan wrote “Don’t Think Twice.” Lines taken word-for-word or slightly altered from the Clayton song are, “T’ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, darlin’,” and, “So I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road.” On the first release of the song, instead of “So I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road babe, where I’m bound, I can’t tell” Dylan sings “So long, honey babe, where I’m bound, I can’t tell”. The lyrics were changed when Dylan performed live versions of the song and on cover versions recorded by other artists.
The original album version of the song is played in a fast, fingerstyle manner by, some speculate, Bruce Langhorne.[1] In live performances, Dylan often strummed the chords, or flatpicks, albeit in a similar, fast-paced manner.
Dylan once introduced “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” as “a statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better… as if you were talking to yourself.” The song, written around the time that Suze Rotolo indefinitely prolonged her stay in Italy, is based on a melody taught to Dylan by folksinger Paul Clayton. NPR’s Tim Riley described the song as “the last word in a long, embittered argument, a paper-thin consolation sung with spite.”
As well as the melody, a couple of lines were taken from Clayton’s “Who’s Goin’ to Buy You Ribbons When I’m Gone?” which was recorded in 1960, two years before Dylan wrote “Don’t Think Twice.” Lines taken word-for-word or slightly altered from the Clayton song are, “T’ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, darlin’,” and, “So I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road.” On the first release of the song, instead of “So I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road babe, where I’m bound, I can’t tell” Dylan sings “So long, honey babe, where I’m bound, I can’t tell”. The lyrics were changed when Dylan performed live versions of the song and on cover versions recorded by other artists.
The original album version of the song is played in a fast, fingerstyle manner by, some speculate, Bruce Langhorne.[1] In live performances, Dylan often strummed the chords, or flatpicks, albeit in a similar, fast-paced manner.
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baltimorecounty wrote:
the greatest breakup song ever written
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Druid66 wrote:
More powerful in its own quiet, stark way that the most serrated-edge punk can be.
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AlCapwnUK wrote:
1962....too good
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deviltohell wrote:
this song is so fuckin' good
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Samhain138 wrote:
I adore this song so fucking much.
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TheFatChocobo wrote:
Halloween '64. Quite sumthin'!
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bananashanna wrote:
:-)
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PattySauce wrote:
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE............
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JellyBean1994 wrote:
If only I could've written this song...
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glassjimmy wrote:
Only gets more beautiful with each listen, a truly remarkable song and what every "love" song should be measured against. What a story, what great playing...just all around fantastic.
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SeaHan wrote:
there ain't no use
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bmc152006 wrote:
just saw the season 1 finale of mad men and thought that this song was used perfectly at the end [2]
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kemp678 wrote:
I love singer/songwriters. Today's troubadours.
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Austin_Rac wrote:
I really love that song, but holy fuck, Waylon's cover is one of my all time favorites, it's so much better.
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tihsymtae wrote:
You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice it's alright.
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abbeeyyy wrote:
<3
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chenzi wrote:
amazing finish to a great first season of mad men. that last episode was perfect.
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SisterSoda wrote:
such a wonderful use of this one in the movie The Help
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AlCapwnUK wrote:
just saw the season 1 finale of mad men and thought that this song was used perfectly at the end
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AlCapwnUK wrote:
last verse is too good.
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