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If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down by Blind Willie Johnson
If i had my way i'd tear this building down 3:09
Blind willie johnson
(joseph w. johnson)
Recorded dec 3 1927 dallas tx
Originally released 1928
Album: dark was the night columbia records
Transcription: awcantor@aol.com
Well if i had my way
I had-a a wicked mind
If i had-a ah lord tear this building down
Weh-ell!
Delilah was a woman fine an' fair
Her pleasant looks-a her coal black hair
Delilah gained old samson's mind
A-first saw the woman that looked so fine
A-well went timnathy i can't tell
A daughter of timnathy a-pleased him well
A-samson told his father 'i'm goin a-a-a'
(help) me lord
If i had my way
Well if a had-a a wicked world
If i had-a ah lord tear this building down
Weh-ell!
Samson's mother replied to him
'can't you find a woman of your kind and kin?'
'samson will you please your mother's mind?'
Go'd and married that-a philistine
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Let me tell you what old samson
Well he roared at the lion the lion run
Samson was the first man the lion attach
He caught the lion and got upon his 'ack
A-written that he killed a man with his
And sampson had his hand in the lion's jaws
If i had my way
If i had-a a wicked world
If i had-a ah lord tear this building down
'well your riddle please a-tell it to me'
'a-how an eater became forth meat?'
'well your riddle please a-tell it to me'
'a-how strong of it came forth sweet?
Deliah got his army after him
Well the bees made-a honey in the lion hair
Well if i had my way
Well if i had-a a wicked world
If i had-a ah lord tear this building down
Sewed me tow knot an' formed a plot
Not many days 'fore samson was caught
A-bind this hands whilst a-walkin' along
A-looked on the ground and found a lil' jawbone
He moved his arm ropes a-pop like thread
Dropped those threads free three thousand were dead
Lord if i had my way
Well if i had a a wicked world
If i had a ah lord tear this building down
Weh-ell!
Samson's trick though they never found out
'till they began to wonder about
A-'till his wife sat up upon his knee
'a-tell me where your strength lie if you please?'
Samson's wife she a-talked so fair
Told his wife cut off-a his hair
'shave my head clean as your hand
'till i become a natural man!'
Lord if i had my way
Well if i had a a wicked world
If i had a ah lord tear this building down.
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