You Don't Have To Do That

Written by 
Bob Dylan
Released on 
The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966
Tabbed by 
Eyolf Østrem

Outtake from the Bringing It All Back Home (1965) sessions. 

Just a fragment, with a simple G-C/g-G figure with slight variations. The basic sequence is:

  G       C/g       G
  :   .   .   .     :
|---------3---3---|-3---
|---------1---1---|-0---
|---------0---0---|-0---
|---------2---2---|-0---
|-2-2-2-2---------|-2---
|-3-3-3-3-3---3---|-3---

With occasional variations:

  :   .   .   .     :
|-3---------------|-3---
|-0----/3-1-------|-0---
|-0----/4-2-0---0-|-0---
|-0-----------2---|-0---
|-2---------------|-2---
|-3-3-3-----------|-3---
        I just
            wanna
                ask    you

or:

  :   .   .   .     :
|-3---------------|-3---
|-0-------3-1-1-1-|-0---
|-0-------4-0-0-0-|-0---
|-0-------0-0-0-2-|-0---
|-2---------------|-2---
|-3-3-3-----------|-3---
  Cause I tell      time
            you
              all
                the
[Spoken:] - ... five two, eight-oh, get the name later.
Dylan: No, no, I'm not gonna do it. I just gotta do... 
I just... It's something like the same... 
G                          C/g C/g G
You say that you're fed up
You say you're gonna head up
And you run around packing
Like a chicken with your head off
I just wanna ask you
Honey, where are you at?
Cause I tell you all the time
That you don't have to do that.

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