You Don't Knock

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Nick Reynolds (vocal, guitar), Bob Shane (vocal, guitar), Dave Guard (vocal, banjo), Buck Wheat (bass):
  Album: GOING PLACES (Original Capitol LP record release) T/ST 1564 - 1960 -- TRACK TIME: (2:23) AMERICAN GOLD WE CAME TO SING Album: MAKE WAY / GOIN' PLACES (Capitol CD re-issue of previously available tracks from MAKE WAY and GOIN' PLACES) CDP 7 96836 2 - 1992 -- TRACK TIME: (2:23) Album: TOM DOOLEY AND OTHER FOLKSONG HITS (SM/Capitol CD reissue of tracks previously available on original Capitol LP releases) - CDL-57247 -- (c)(p) 1989 -- TRACK TIME: (2:27) Album: MADE IN THE USA (Pair-SM/Capitol CD reissue of tracks previously available on original Capitol releases) - PCD-2-1221/ CDL-57057 -- (c)(p) 1989 -- TRACK TIME: (2:24) ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS -- TRACK TIME: (N/A Album: THE GUARD YEARS (Bear Family Records CD re-issue of previously recorded material) BCD 16160 JK - 1997 -- TRACK TIME: (N/A)
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ALBUM NOTES  
Goin' Places The Trio pulled out all the stops in their version of this rousing spiritual, and the result is an enthusiastic performance that rocks from beginning to end.
Other Notes of Interest  
LP vs. CD song credit: The original capitol release of "Going Places" credits "You Don't Knock" as follows: "Traditional Arr. Dave Guard." On the 1992 Capitol CD release of "Make Way / Going Places" credit is given to R. Staples and Wesley Westbrooks. A check of B.M.I. reveals "You Don't Knock" credited to Dave Guard (Sanga Music Inc., 250 West 57th St., Suite 1218, New York, NY 10107,) and another credit to Ceder Walton and Westbrooks (no publisher listed.) The Granada Music publication credit was taken from "Kingston Trio Delux Souvenir Album," H.P. Hansen Publications, INC. - 1964.
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You Don't Knock
You don't knock. (You don't knock.) You just walk on in.
The door (the door) into heaven's inn.
There's love (there's love) and joy for you
to share (to share) the whole day through.
I know (I know) my friends are
there to rest (to rest) in the heaven's nest.
You don't knock, ring, punch a hole.
The door's wide open a-waitin' for your soul.
You don't knock just walk on in.

I've walked life's winding road (Oh, yeah!)
'Cause I'm tryin' to bear this load (Oh, yeah!)
And I travel both night and day. (Oh, yeah!)
So tired I could hardly pray, (Oh, yeah!)
Well, Jesus, my light and guide, (Oh, yeah!)
oh, He's ever by my side. (Oh, yeah!)
So, I'm walkin', not a-knockin', into heaven with pride.

I'll have no need to fear. (Oh, yeah!)
Well, He is ever near. (Oh, yeah!)
He'll know my work was true. (Oh, yeah!)
So glad the day is through. (Yeah!)
Well it wasn't for me to say. (Oh, yeah!)
I didn't think I'd make my way. (Oh, yeah!)
So, I'm walkin', not a-knockin',
to heaven with pride.

Repeat first verse

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