Scritta nel lontano 1962 ed inclusa nell’album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan“, diventa presto uno dei cavalli di battaglia di quel tempo.
Lo stile country-folk, il ritmo ondeggiante e piacevole. Il brano venne scritto circa nel periodo in cui la fidanzata di allora di Dylan, Suze Rotolo prolungò a tempo indeterminato la sua permanenza in Italia. La saltellante e gioiosa melodia del pezzo è basata su quella di un brano del folksinger Paul Clayton.
Il sunto di tutto sta nelle parole: “I give her my heart but she wanted my soul”, gli doniamo il nostro cuore…ma loro vogliono solo le nostre anime!
Vi propongo questa magnifica versione live con Eric Clapton.
“It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don’t matter, anyhow
An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don’t know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and Ìll be gone
Yoùre the reason Ìm trav’lin’ on
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
Ìm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin’ 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 all right
It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal
I can’t hear you any more
Ìm a-thinkin’ and a-wond’rin’ all the way 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
Ìm walkin’ down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where Ìm bound, I can’t tell
But goodbyès too good a word, gal
So Ìll 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”