Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right | Chords + Lyrics (capo IV)
Intro
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 G F |
| C C/G G7 | C (C/G) |
Verse 1
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
Well, it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe.
| F | C C/G G G7 |
If’n you don’t know by now.
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
And it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe.
| D7/F# | G G6 G7 |
It’ll never do somehow.
| C (C/G) | C7 (C7/G) |
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn,
| F | D7/F# |
look out your window and I’ll be gone.
| C/G G G7 | Am7 G F |
You’re the reason I’m a-traveling on.
| C C/G G | C (C/G) |
But don’t think twice, it’s all right.
Instrumental 1
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
| F | C (C/G) | C (C/G) |
Verse 2
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
And it ain’t no use in a-turning on your light, babe.
| F | C C/G G G7 |
That light I never knowed.
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
And it ain’t no use in turning on your light, babe.
| D7/F# | G G6 G7 |
I’m on the dark side of the road.
| C (C/G) | C7 (C7/G) |
But I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say,
| F | D7/F# |
to try and make me change my mind and stay.
| C/G G G7 | Am7 G F |
But we never did too much talking anyway.
| C C/G G |2/4 C C/G |4/4
But don’t think twice, it’s all right.
Instrumental 2
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
| F | C (C/G) |2/4 C C/G |
Verse 3
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
So it ain’t no use in calling out my name, gal.
| F | C C/G G G7 |
Like you never done before.
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
And it ain’t no use in calling out my name, gal.
| D7/F# | G G6 G7 |
I can’t hear you anymore.
| C (C/G) | C7 (C7/G) |
I’m a-thinking and a-wonderin’ walking down the road,
| F | D7/F# |
I once loved a woman, a child, I am told.
| C/G G G7 | Am7 G F |
I’d give her my heart but she wanted my soul.
| C C/G G |2/4 C C/G |
But don’t think twice, it’s all right.
Instrumental 3
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
| F | C C/G G G7 | C (C/G) | C (C/G) |
Verse 4
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
So long honey, babe.
| F | C C/G G G7 |
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell.
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
And goodbye is too good a word, babe.
| D7/F# | G G6 G7 |
So I’ll just say, “Fare thee well”.
| C (C/G) | C7 (C7/G) |
I ain’t a-saying you treated me unkind,
| F | D7/F# |
you could’ve done better but I don’t mind.
| C/G G G7 | Am7 G F |
You just kinda wasted my precious time.
| C C/G G |2/4 C C/G |
But don’t think twice, it’s all right.
Outro
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
| F | C (C/G) |
| C C/G G G7 | Am7 Am/G |
| D7/F# | G G6 G7 |
| C (C/G) | C7 (C7/G) |
| F | D7/F# |
| C/G G G7 | Am7 G F |
| C G | C F C | C |
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right chords and TAB
Thinking in the key of C, but sounding as if in E is all down to fitting that capo on fret 4. The bonus here is that you can move that capo up or down to suit the singer, maintaining the correct chord shapes, essential in order to sound like Bob Dylan.
Just like Bob’s biggest hit from this era, Blowin’ In The Wind, we are dealing with the occasional 2/4 bar.
Even though this is finger picked, not strummed, the style is very similar with plenty of alternating bass notes throughout. Let’s take a look at the verse and analyze the chords four bars at a time using TAB.
The first four bars contain most of the concept, play through this very slowly and make sure you get it exactly as the TAB display.
I’ve written almost all the chords that appear here. In the third bar, perhaps I should have said Fadd9 as well, and the hammer-on in the last bar is a G6, but both of these are only for a single 16th note!
Let’s look at the next four bars.
Here we start out in the same way but go to a D/F# instead. This is followed by a great G chord lick moving from G to G6, and G7, lovely stuff.
Here’s the 3rd example.
The same intense even 16th-note pattern is applied throughout here. Practice very slowly at first. The hardest part is the last beat of the D/F#.
Here are the last four bars of Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’s verse chords.
I really like how this starts on C/G, not C, it’s a nice variation considering we’ve come from an /F#.
The rest of these four bars are actually new, we’ve not played this before, practice slowly and you will get there. I would definitely recommend you use a metronome throughout.
There are some variations to what you saw here in the TAB, use the chords and lyrics above to work these out. It’ll be easy once you practiced using the TAB, I promise!
Covers and name changes
Like many Dylan tunes, Don’t Think Twice has been covered by plenty of artists, most famously Elvis, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Eric Clapton, John Martyn, and Joan Baez.
Without a doubt, the craziest version is that of Franki Valli & The Four Seasons, you can check that and all the others in the playlist at the top of the page.
For some reason, they have sometimes changed the title to Don’t Think Twice (It’s Alright), and Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.
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