Bob Dylan : "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Lyrics (Original version 1973) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Movie Soundtrack

Bob Dylan - "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" lyrics

by Bob Dylan

Pat Garret & Billy the Kid Movie (1973) Soundtrack

Mama, take this badge off of me

I can't use it anymore.

It's gettin' dark, too dark to see

I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Mama, put my guns in the ground

I can't shoot them anymore.

That long black cloud is comin' down

I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Bob Dylan (image via flkrblankslatephotography)

     "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.     Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter. He has been a major figure in music for five decades and has had immense influence on popular music. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan proceeded to revolutionize perceptions of the limits of popular music in 1965 with the six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone". (source: Wikipedia)