Indigo Girls - Knockin On Heavens Door Lyrics

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"knockin' on heaven's door" is a bob dylan song from 1973. the girls

Have been doing it now and then since at least 1988. there's

Something about the girls' version that kinda confuses me... see

The official dylan lyric sheet has two verses:

Mama take this badge off of me

I can't use it anymore

It's getting dark too dark for me to see

I feel like i'm 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 like i'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock knock knockin' on heaven's door...

Though i know that dylan often sings a third verse live:

Mama wipe the blood from my face

I can't see through it anymore

It's a feeling that i just can't trace

I feel like i'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock knock knockin' on heaven's door...

Though in every ig version i have amy sings the following third

Verse:

Mama wipe this blood from my face

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I can't see through the walls

Six white horses coming to carry me away

I feel like i'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock knock knockin' on heaven's door...

So i don't know whether amy re-wrote dylan's third verse or whether

It's from some dylan version i don't know. what i'm trying to say is

That i don't know whether to attribute the "six white horses" line to

Dylan or to amy.

To further complicate matters i've got one version that features a

Fourth verse sung by michelle malone. this verse breaks both the

Meter and the rhyme scheme (abbb in favor of abab) so i'm willing to

Bet that it's just ms. malone improvising...

Mama take these chains off of me

'cause i don't want them anymore

They're getting too damn heavy i'm crawling across the floor

I feel like i'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock knock knockin' on heaven's door...

Oh - btw - the first person who asks me about the "guns-n-roses"

Version will feel my wrath...

-vic.

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