# Go Away From My Window
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 2, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257 "2013-12-02T01:45:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/1 "2013-12-02T01:45:46Z")
Who wrote it? Who sang the most-popular (most airplay) version of it?
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/2 "2013-12-02T01:56:24Z")
_It Ain’t Me Babe_ is the name of it. Dylan wrote it. The Turtles made it a hit. And no, I didn’t look it up.
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### Author:  [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/3 "2013-12-02T02:20:05Z")
Johnny Cash had a successful version of it. Dunno how big a it it was but it’s on many of his best-ofs.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/4 "2013-12-02T03:21:37Z")
But if you haven’t heard [the definitive cover by Sebastian Cabot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo522Wb40bU), then you haven’t heard anything!
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/5 "2013-12-02T03:24:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> _It Ain’t Me Babe_ is the name of it. Dylan wrote it. The Turtles made it a hit. And no, I didn’t look it up.
Thanks. It just wasn’t coming to me.
I was thinking of the Dylan version.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/6 "2013-12-02T03:24:54Z")
Not Melissa Etheridge, that’s for sure.
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### Author:  [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/7 "2013-12-02T03:32:48Z")
[Best version ever.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZsOfCOxek)
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/8 "2013-12-02T03:45:28Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Thanks. It just wasn’t coming to me.
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> I was thinking of the Dylan version.
The Turtles pretty much ruined it, just like The Byrds ruined Tambourine Man by turning it into a cheesy pop song.
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### Author:  [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/9 "2013-12-04T21:01:46Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> _It Ain’t Me Babe_ is the name of it. Dylan wrote it. The Turtles made it a hit. And no, I didn’t look it up.
[Go Away from My Window](http://www.akh.se/lyrics/go_away_from_my_window.htm) was a song long before Dylan stole it.
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### Author:  [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/10 "2013-12-04T21:54:14Z")
I’m a little embarrassed to admit that these guys’ was the first version of it that I heard:
> **[Dino, Desi & Billy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino,_Desi_%26_Billy)**
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> Dino, Desi & Billy were an American singing trio that existed between 1964 and 1969. The group featured Dean "Dino" Martin (Dean Paul Martin, the son of singer and actor Dean Martin), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Desiderio Arnaz IV, the son of television stars Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball), and their friend Billy Hinsche, the son of Otto “Doc” Hinsche and Celia Bautista. A reconstituted version of the group performed between 1998 and 2010.
> Dino Martin, Desi Arnaz Jr. and Billy Hinsche first met in grammar s...
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/11 "2013-12-04T22:52:17Z")
> [@74westy](#):
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> [Go Away from My Window](http://www.akh.se/lyrics/go_away_from_my_window.htm) was a song long before Dylan stole it.
Without hearing the tune that goes along with it, I can’t agree with you. Taking a line from another song or a poem or a work of Shakespeare is not stealing someone’s work.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2013, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/12 "2013-12-05T06:21:01Z")
> [@74westy](#):
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> [Go Away from My Window](http://www.akh.se/lyrics/go_away_from_my_window.htm) was a song long before Dylan stole it.
Have you listened to John Jacob Niles’s song? Other than the title, there is nothing in common.
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### Author:  [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-away-from-my-window/675257/13 "2013-12-05T06:53:21Z")
> [@Leaper](#):
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> Not Melissa Etheridge, that’s for sure.
I really hoped that this was about a response song. Stupid reality.