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Op maandag 31 december 2007 01:14 schreef OutOfThisWorld het volgende:Nummer is eigenlijk niet kapot te maken vind ik. Zelf als ik 't zing klinkt 't nog goed
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Het nummer is door zeer vele artiesten gecoverd. Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, Eric Clapton, Bon Jovi, Wyclef Jean, Seether, Cold Chisel, Television, Avril Lavigne, Warren Zevon, Randy Crawford[2]; de Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2 en anderen hebben het incidenteel gespeeld of opgenomen in hun vaste repertoire, niet zelden in de oorspronkelijke versie, maar ook in muziekstijlen uiteenlopend van reggae en blues tot funk, rock en zelfs rap. Pink Floyd verstopte de versie van Roger Waters[3] in een exclusieve set van achttien cd's, A Tree Full of Secrets.
Het bekendst is ongetwijfeld de hardrockversie van Guns N' Roses (op het album Use Your Illusion II uit 1991), die het nummer onder meer speelde tijdens het Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert op paasmaandag 20 april 1992, het afscheidsconcert voor de frontman van Queen, die in november '91 aan aids was overleden. Deze live-uitvoering haalde vervolgens de nummer twee-positie in de Britse charts; de royalty's gaan naar de Mercury Phoenix Trust. Critici menen dat de interpretatie van Guns N' Roses niet deugt en hun succes daarom het originele lied om zeep heeft geholpen.[4] De Guns N' Rosesversie heeft echter wel de Dylanuitvoering bij een groter (en jonger) publiek bekendgemaakt.
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Hier nog wat coupletten die Dylan er bij heeft gegooid door de jaren heen:
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
(1974, various locations, incl. the version on Before the Flood.
This verse is inserted between the two verses on the original album)
Mama take these bells out of my ears
I can't hear them anymore
They're bringin' me down and givin' me tears
Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Roger McGuinn's verse:
Mama I can hear that thunder roar
Echoin' down from God's distant shore
I can hear it callin' for my soul
Feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door
(Waterbury CT, 751111)
Mama wipe the blood off of my face
I can't see through it anymore
I need someone to talk to, and a new hiding place
I feel like I'm knocking on heaven's door
(Boston, 751121)
Mama take these tears out of my eyes
I can't see through them anymore
Just for once, I'd like to see the sunrise
Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
(MSG, "Night of the Hurricane", 751208)
Mama take this badge off of me
I can't feel it anymore
It's getting dark, too dark to see
Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
(New Orleans, 760503, Fort Worth 760516)
Mama tow my barge down to sea
Pull it down from shore to shore
Two brown eyes are lookin' at me
Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.
Goin' down by that road
Feelin' down and more and more
Take the train by [...]
Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.
(Earl's Court, London 810328)
[...] on this scene
fallin' down like to the floor
Two brown eyes are looking at me
Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
(Earl's Court, London 810329)
Mama take me above all that misery
Let it fall down to the floor
Two brown eyes are looking at me
Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
(Drammen, Norway, 810710)
Mama take this [front part away]
I just don't want it anymore
Aah, when I get in front of something it's too much to pay
Yeah, Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door
Mama take my boat [out of the sea]
Let it fall down to the floor
Two brown eyes are looking at me
Feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.
(Avignon, 810725)
Mama wipe the blod from my face
I just can't see trough it any more
Sometimes you feel so damn out of place
And I feel like I'm knockin' on-a heavens door
(Bristol Connecticut, Lake Compounce 4 Sep, 1988. Submitted by Patrik Winquist)
The sun is setting down
On this ill-forgotten town
Two riders are coming down
Bury my heart in this ground
(Unknown date and location, submitted by Chris Barrett)