"You Don't Care" is a song written by Herb Ryals and Jerry Willis. It was released as a single by Arthur Alexander in 1965 as the B-side to "Detroit City." Music journalist Richard Younger describes "You Don't Care" is a "bluesy mid-tempo song. Allmusic critic Richie Unterberger describes the melody as "compelling" and "minor-shaded." Authors David Hatch and Stephen Millward note a resemblance to early Beatles songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who covered several of Alexander's songs although not this one. Hatch and Millward describe the vocal performance as incorporating country music mannerisms to a greater extent than Alexander had ever done previously. Unterberger describes Alexander's vocal performance as being "at his most sullen, suffusing the words in hurt without ev