Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

(piano bass, octaves:)

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(band enters:)

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Doot-doo... (a-why babe, a-why babe)

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Doot-doo... (a-why babe, a-why babe)

Verse 1

  Ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe (why babe, why babe)

  It don't matter anyhow

  Oh, it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe (why babe, why babe)

  If-a you don't know by now

  When the rooster crows at the break of dawn

  Look out your window and I'll be gone

  (You're the reason that I'm travelin' on)

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Don't think twice, it's all right

Verse 2

Ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe (why babe, why babe)

The light I never knowed

Ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe (why babe, why babe)

I'm on the dark side of the road

And I wish there was something you would do

To try to make me change my mind and stay

(We never did too much talkin' anyway)

Don't think twice, it's all right

Break

(scat singing):

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Verse 3

I'm walkin' down the long and lonesome road, babe

(I'm walkin' down road, babe)

Where I'm bound I can't tell

(Where I'm bound can't tell)

But goodbye's too good a word to say (why babe, why babe)

So I'll just say fare-thee-well

I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind

You coulda done better but I don't mind

(You just kinda wasted my precious time)

Don't think twice, it's all right

Coda

[repeat to fade:]

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Doot-doo... (a-why babe, a-why babe)

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Doot-doo... (a-why babe, a-why babe)

2: When the rooster crows at the break of dawn

Look out your window, baby, I'll a-be gone, gone, gone

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers