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My son who is 21 now but three years old in this video was given this clip by the man who took it 18 years ago. He came into the restaurant where my son works out of the blue and handed him a flash drive with this video on it. The years pass by so fast and this song is very poignant because I would be divorced ten years later feeling very much the way the song made me feel at the time. I was blessed to have such a beautiful family and if not for the tragedy that befell our family we may have survived. I'm thankful for the tears we shared together. "Don't Think Twice It's Alright"
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and released the following year on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and as the B-side of the single "Blowin' in the Wind". The song has been covered by several other artists, including Waylon Jennings in 1964, Emilie-Claire Barlow in her 2010 album The Beat Goes On and Peter, Paul and Mary, who released it as a single, which reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Composition
In the liner notes to the original release, Nat Hentoff calls the song "a statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better ... as if you were talking to yourself". It was written around the time that Suze Rotolo indefinitely prolonged her stay in Italy. The beginning of the melody is based on the public domain traditional song "Who's Gonna Buy Your Chickens When I'm Gone",[2][3] which was taught to Dylan by folksinger Paul Clayton, who had used it in his song "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone?"
As well as the beginning of the melody, a couple of lines of lyrics were taken from Clayton's "Who's Gonna 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.
Releases
In addition to its original release, the song has appeared on several of Dylan's greatest hits compilations, including Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II (1971), The Best of Bob Dylan (1997), and The Essential Bob Dylan (2000). Another version of the song, recorded as a demo for Dylan's music publisher M. Witmark & Sons in 1963, was included on two releases in Columbia's Bootleg Series: Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (2005) and Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 (2010). In addition, live versions have been released on Before the Flood (1974; recorded February 14, 1974), as a reggae rock version[4] on Bob Dylan at Budokan (1978; recorded February 28, 1978), The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall (2004; recorded October 31, 1964), Live at The Gaslight 1962 (2005; recorded October 15, 1962), and Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections (2018; recorded April 12, 1963).
Certifications
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[5] Silver 200,000‡
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
Cover versions
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
Single by Peter, Paul and Mary
from the album In the Wind
B-side "Autumn to May"
Released 1963
Recorded 1963
Genre Folk rock
Length 3:16
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Bob Dylan
Producer(s) Albert Grossman
Peter, Paul and Mary singles chronology
"Blowin' in the Wind"
(1963) "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
(1963) "Stewball"
(1963)
1:09
6:31
4:58
3:26
