Knocking on Heaven’s Door Chords

Easy tutorial for beginners with some explanations, the tab, the lyrics and the chords to play the song Knocking on Heaven’s Door chords by Bob Dylan on guitar.

On this page you will find :

The chords with explanations

The lyrics

The score PDF

Knocking on Heaven’s Door with chords

The verses of the song are played in the same way.

We will therefore only look at first verse and chorus.

Chords of Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Here are the few chords you will need to know and master to play the whole song :

Knocking on Heaven's Door chords

When they are mastered, you can continue with the explanations.

Verse 1 of the music

You can continue and read the next tab to play verse 1 :

Remember that the chords are written above the lyrics so that you can play them at the right time. Therefore, it’s better to play while singing. Chords that are to the right of a phrase (not above a word) are played between the two phrases.

Knocking on Heaven's Door guitar
Tab text
G D Am
Mama, take this badge off of me
G D C
I can’t use it anymore
G D Am
It’s gettin’ dark, too dark to see
G D C
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

To play the verse 2 after chorus, you juste have to follow the same framework with the help of the lyrics.

Chorus of the song

For the chorus, you don’t need to know any other new chords and you can directly follow the tab :

Knocking on Heaven's Door lyrics
Tab text
G D Am
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
G D C
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
X2

To play another easy guitar song, you can watch for stand by me chords.

Knocking on Heaven’s Door lyrics

The song Knocking on Heaven’s Door chords by Bob Dylan is composed of two verses and a chorus.

The structure of the lyrics is like that:

Verse 1 – Chorus – Verse 2 – Chorus

Verse 1

Mama, take this badge off of me
I can’t use it anymore
It’s gettin’ dark, too dark to see
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

Chorus

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

Verse 2

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

Chorus x3

If you want to improvise on this song, you can watch for the G scale pattern of our pentatonic guitar scale.

Easy PDF score to play Knocking on Heaven’s Door from Bob Dylan

The following score is a “home-made” easy PDF score for beginners that we created according to the above frameworks and explanations.

Summarizes everything we just covered. You can download it for free to play Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan on guitar.