DON’T
THINK TWICE IT’S ALRIGHT
BOB
DYLAN
SONGWRITER: BOB DYLAN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: DON’T THINK TWICE IT’S ALL RIGHT
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY FOLK
YEAR: 1963
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May
24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Widely
regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major
figure in popular culture for more than 50 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from
the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin'
in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964)
became anthems for the civil
rights and anti-war movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of
political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defied pop music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture.
Following his
self-titled debut album in 1962, which
mainly comprised traditional folk songs,
Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan the following
year. The
album features "Blowin' in the Wind" and the thematically complex
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". For
many of these songs, he adapted the tunes and phraseology of older folk songs. He
went on to release the politically charged The Times They Are a-Changin' and the more lyrically abstract and introspective Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964. In
1965 and 1966, Dylan drew controversy when he adopted
electrically amplified rock instrumentation, and in the space of 15 months recorded three
of the most important and influential rock albums of the 1960s: Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway
61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966). Commenting on the six-minute single "Like
a Rolling Stone" (1965), Rolling Stone wrote: "No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and
transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all
time."
In
July 1966, Dylan withdrew from touring after a motorcycle accident. During
this period, he recorded a large body of songs with members of
the Band,
who had previously backed him on tour. These recordings were released as the
collaborative álbum The
Basement Tapes in 1975. In the late 1960s and early
1970s, Dylan explored country
music and rural themes in John
Wesley Harding (1967), Nashville Skyline (1969), and New
Morning (1970). In 1975, he released Blood
on the Tracks, which many saw as a return to
form. In the late 1970s, he became a born-again
Christian and released a series of albums of
contemporary gospel music before returning to his more familiar rock-based
idiom in the early 1980s. Dylan's 1997 album Time Out of Mind marked the
beginning of a renaissance for his career. He has released five critically
acclaimed albums of original material since then, the most recent being Rough
and Rowdy Ways (2020). He also recorded a series of
three albums in the 2010s comprising versions of traditional American standards,
especially songs recorded by Frank
Sinatra. Backed by a changing lineup of musicians,
he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour.
Since
1994, Dylan has published eight books of drawings and paintings, and his work
has been exhibited in major art galleries. He has
sold more than 100 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
He has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, ten Grammy Awards,
a Golden
Globe Award and an Academy Award.
Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize Board in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture,
marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power". In 2016,
Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for
having created new poetic expressions within the great American song
tradition".
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962, recorded on November 14 that year, and released on the 1963
album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and as a
single.
It ain't no use to
sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
An' 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 trav'lin' on
But don't think twice, it's all right
It ain't no use in
turnin' on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' 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 talkin' anyway
But don't think twice, it's all right
So 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-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
But don't think twice, it's all right
So long, honey bee
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't 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 all right.
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