Another Fine Song (easy) For The Beginner Baritone Ukulele Player, Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door

 

“Knockin' On Heaven's Door”

Written and performed by Bob Dylan,

featured in the 1973 movie

“Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid.”

Also a 1990 single release by Dylan.

 (No CAPO)

G        D        Am7 / C (alternate) | x4

G                        D                   Am7

Mama take this badge off of me

G         D              C

I can't use it any-more

G                 D                          Am7

It's getting dark, too dark to see

G            D                                  C

Feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door

G                     D                                  Am7

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door   

G                     D                                  C

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

G                     D                                  Am7

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door,

G                     D                                  C

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

G                      D                 Am7

Mama put my guns in the ground

G         D                        C

I can't shoot them any-more

G                         D                       Am7

That long black cloud is comin' down

G              D                                 C

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

G                     D                                  Am7

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door 

G                      D                                 C

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door

G                     D                                  Am7

Knock-knock-knockin' on heaven's door,

G                     D                                  C

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

Oh-Ohh, yeah-yeah

G             D            Am7 / C (alternate)   | x2

To play with Dylan on YouTube click HERE

A Couple Of Thoughtful Ancestry Based Expressions

Cousin Wende of the FaceBook based ancestry group The Sheldon Family Association reminded us of this very fine ancestry poem expressed here to help brighten your day:  

Dear Ancestor

"Your tombstone stands among the rest; 

Neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out

On polished marble stone.

It reaches out to all who care

It is too late to mourn.

You did not know that I exist

You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

In flesh, and blood, and bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

One hundred years ago,

Spreads out among the ones you left

Who would have loved you so.

I wonder how you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

And come to visit you."

- a poem by Walter Butler Palmer (1868-1932), allegedly written in 1906 while Mr. Palmer visited the cemetery where his great grandparents are resting.

And too...  

a few months back, these scholarly written words by Ms. Della M. Cummings-Wright were re-published for your kind consideration -- click HERE to view.