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Bob Dylan

Knockin' On Heaven'S Door

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1973
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“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. The song reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The song consists of four chords in the key of G major: G, D, Am7, and C. The basic pattern throughout the song is G-D-Am7-Am7 and then G-D-C-C, and this is repeated. In 2004, it was voted #190 by representatives of the music industry and press in Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time issue. Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door ... I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door

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This song is listed #190 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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More songs by Bob Dylan (See Charts): It'S Alright, Ma (I'M Only Bleeding), Seven Days, Most Of The Time, People Get Ready, Is Your Love In Vain?, I Don'T Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met), Girl From The North Country, Corrina, Corrina, Peggy Day, and Tonight I'Ll Be Staying Here With You.

Popular in Rock (See Charts): Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway To Heaven, Beat It, Give In To Me, Wherever You Will Go, Stigmatized, Nothing'S Changed, Hotel California, Imagine, and Nothing Else Matters.

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adam wrote on April, 18th 2008 at 2:47am:
better than the gnr cover


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