Released: June 20, 1974
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Dylan & The Band
Mama, take this badge off of me
I can’t use it anymore
It’s getting dark, too dark to see
Feel like 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
Mama, wipe the blood from my face
I'm sick and tired of the war
Got a lone black feelin' and it's hard to trace
Feel like 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
Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can’t shoot them anymore
That long black train is pullin' on down
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
I can’t use it anymore
It’s getting dark, too dark to see
Feel like 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
Mama, wipe the blood from my face
I'm sick and tired of the war
Got a lone black feelin' and it's hard to trace
Feel like 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
Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can’t shoot them anymore
That long black train is pullin' on down
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
Before the Flood
- Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) [Before the Flood]
- Like a Rolling Stone [Before the Flood]
- Highway 61 Revisited [Before the Flood]
- All Along the Watchtower [Before the Flood]
- It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) [Before the Flood]
- Just Like a Woman [Before the Flood]
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right [Before the Flood]
- I Shall Be Released [Before the Flood]
- Ballad of a Thin Man [Before the Flood]
- It Ain’t Me, Babe [Before the Flood]
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door [Before the Flood]
- Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 [Before the Flood]
- Lay Lady Lay [Before the Flood]
- Blowin’ in the Wind [Before the Flood]
- Before the Flood (1974)
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- This Wheel’s on Fire
- Tears of Rage
- Katie’s Been Gone
- Yazoo Street Scandal
- Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
- Bessie Smith
- Long Distance Operator
- Ruben Remus
- Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)
- Odds and Ends
- Million Dollar Bash
- Goin’ to Acapulco
- Lo and Behold!
- Clothes Line Saga
- Apple Suckling Tree
- Please, Mrs. Henry
- Too Much of Nothing
- Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
- Ain’t No More Cane
- Tiny Montgomery
- Don’t Ya Tell Henry
- Nothing Was Delivered
- Open the Door, Homer