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If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Take 2, Alternate Take)

Bob Dylan
Track 22 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 
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If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Take 2, Alternate Take) Lyrics

Listen to me, baby
There’s something you must see
I want to be with you, gal
If you want to be with me

But if you got to go
It’s all right
But if you got to go, go now
Or else you gotta stay all night

I am just a poor boy, baby
Lookin’ to connect
But I certainly don’t want you thinkin’
That I ain’t got any respect

But if you got to go
It’s all right
But if you got to go, go now
Or else you gotta stay all night

It ain’t that I’m questionin’ you
To take part in any quiz
It’s just that I ain’t got no watch
An’ you keep askin’ me what time it is

But if you got to go
It’s all right
But if you got to go, go now
Or else you gotta stay all night
It ain’t that I’m wantin’
Anything you never gave before
It’s just that I’ll be sleepin’ soon
It’ll be too dark for you to find the door

So if you got to go
It’s all right
But if you got to go, go now
Or else you gotta stay all night

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The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge (2015)
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  2. 2.
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  3. 3.
    Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Take 3, Remake, Complete)
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  5. 5.
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  6. 6.
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  7. 7.
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  8. 8.
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  9. 9.
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  10. 10.
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  11. 12.
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  12. 13.
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  13. 14.
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  14. 15.
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  15. 16.
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  16. 17.
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  17. 18.
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  18. 19.
    On the Road Again (Take 7 Remake, Complete) (Missing Lyrics)
  19. 20.
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  20. 21.
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  21. 22.
    If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Take 2, Alternate Take)
  22. 23.
    You Don’t Have to Do That (Take 1, Solo Acoustic)
  23. 24.
    California (Take 1, Solo Acoustic)
  24. 25.
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  25. 26.
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  26. 27.
    Mr. Tambourine Man (Take 3)
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  28. 29.
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  29. 30.
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  30. 32.
    Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence (Take 2) (Missing Lyrics)
  31. 33.
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  32. 34.
    Tombstone Blues (Take 9) (Missing Lyrics)
  33. 35.
    Positively 4th Street (Takes 1-3, False Starts)
  34. 36.
    Positively 4th Street (Take 4, Complete) (Missing Lyrics)
  35. 37.
    Positively 4th Street (Take 5)
  36. 38.
    Desolation Row (Take 1) (Missing Lyrics)
  37. 39.
    Desolation Row (Take 2, Piano Demo) (Missing Lyrics)
  38. 42.
    From a Buick 6 (Take 1, False Start)
  39. 50.
    Like a Rolling Stone (Take 5) (Missing Lyrics)
  40. 53.
    Like a Rolling Stone (Take 9-10 Remake, False Starts)
  41. 54.
    Like a Rolling Stone (Take 11)
  42. 57.
    Like A Rolling Stone (Take 14 Remake, False Start)
  43. 58.
    Like a Rolling Stone (Take 15) (Missing Lyrics)
  44. 63.
    Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (Take 1, Alternate Take)
  45. 64.
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  46. 65.
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  47. 67.
    Highway 61 Revisited (Take 7) (Missing Lyrics)
  48. 68.
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  49. 69.
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  50. 72.
    Queen Jane Approximately (Take 5) (Missing Lyrics)
  51. 74.
    Medicine Sunday (Take 1)
  52. 75.
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  53. 76.
    I Wanna Be Your Lover (Take 1, Fragment) (Missing Lyrics)
  54. 77.
    I Wanna Be Your Lover (Take 6, Complete) (Missing Lyrics)
  55. 78.
    Instrumental (Take 2, Complete) (Missing Lyrics)
  56. 79.
    Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (Take 6, Complete) (Missing Lyrics)
  57. 80.
    Visions of Johanna (Take 1, Rehearsal) (Missing Lyrics)
  58. 81.
    Visions of Johanna (Take 5) (Missing Lyrics)
  59. 82.
    She’s Your Lover Now (Take 6)
  60. 83.
    One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (Take 19) (Missing Lyrics)
  61. 84.
    Lunatic Princess (Take 1)
  62. 85.
    Fourth Time Around (Take 11, Complete) (Missing Lyrics)
  63. 86.
    Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Take 8)
  64. 87.
    Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
  65. 88.
    Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 13)
  66. 89.
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  67. 90.
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  68. 91.
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  69. 92.
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  70. 93.
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  71. 94.
    Obviously Five Believers
  72. 95.
    I Want You (Take 4) (Missing Lyrics)
  73. 96.
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  74. Just Like a Woman (Take 8) (Missing Lyrics)
  75. Just Like a Woman (Take 1) (Missing Lyrics)
  76. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 14, Complete) (Missing Lyrics)
  77. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 5) (Missing Lyrics)
  78. She Belongs to Me (Take 1)
  79. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Rehearsal) (Missing Lyrics)
  80. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again (Take 1) (Missing Lyrics)
  81. Visions of Johanna (Take 7) (Missing Lyrics)
  82. Visions of Johanna (Take 14) (Missing Lyrics)
  83. Visions of Johanna (Take 8) (Missing Lyrics)
  84. She’s Your Lover Now (Take 1, Breakdown) (Missing Lyrics)
  85. Highway 61 Revisited (Take 5, Complete) (Missing Lyrics)
  86. Desolation Row (Take 5 Remake, Complete (Missing Lyrics)
  87. (One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (Take 2, Rehearsal (Missing Lyrics)
  88. She’s Your Lover Now (Take 16, Complete) (Missing Lyrics)
  89. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Take 3) (Missing Lyrics)
  90. She’s Your Lover Now (Take 6, Rehearsal) (Missing Lyrics)
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