If You Gotta Go, Go Now
| "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" | ||||
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Dutch picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by Bob Dylan | ||||
| B-side | "To Ramona" | |||
| Released | January 1967 | |||
| Recorded | January 15, 1965 | |||
| Studio | Columbia 30th Street, New York City | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 2:32 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter | Bob Dylan | |||
| Producer | Tom Wilson | |||
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"If You Gotta Go, Go Now" (sometimes subtitled "(Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)") is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1964. The first released version was as a single in the US by the UK group the Liverpool Five in July 1965, but this did not chart in the US despite receiving much airplay, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Another British band, Manfred Mann, then issued the song as a single in September 1965 and had a number 2 hit. Fairport Convention also had a chart hit, with a French version, in 1969.