Don't Knock

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "You don't knock, you just walk in, The door to heaven's inn"; love joy and old friends are waiting; "don't knock ring push or hold." Verses are about the singer's certainty that, with Jesus as "my guide, ever by my side," entry to heaven is sure.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (recording, Staple Singers)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Reverend Ott and Family, "You Don't Knock, You Just Walk On In" (on USMississippi01)
Staple Singers, "Don't Knock" (Vee Jay 902, 1961)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
You Don't Knock
File: RcYDoKno

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