[ti:If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down]
[ar:Blind Willie Johnson]
[al:Original Vintage Delta Blues]
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[00:00.00]If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down - Blind Willie Johnson
[00:00.80]Written by：Willie Johnson
[00:01.60]Well if I had my way
[00:05.87]I had a a wicked mind
[00:08.63]If I had a ah lord tear this building down
[00:14.25]Weh ell
[00:16.25]Delilah was a woman fine an' fair
[00:19.03]Her pleasant looks a her coal black hair
[00:22.06]Delilah gained old samson's mind
[00:24.94]A first saw the woman that looked so fine
[00:27.83]A well went timnathy I can't tell
[00:30.80]A daughter of timnathy a pleased him well
[00:33.66]A Samson told his father 'I'm going a a a'
[00:38.21]Help me lord
[00:39.46]If I had my way
[00:41.66]Well if a had a a wicked world
[00:45.25]If I had a ah lord tear this building down
[00:50.31]Weh ell
[00:51.56]Samson's mother replied to him
[00:54.44]'Can't you find a woman of your kind and kin'
[00:57.10]'Samson will you please your mother's mind'
[01:00.18]Go'd and married that a philistine
[01:03.12]Let me tell you what old Samson
[01:05.32]Well he roared at the lion the lion run
[01:09.04]Samson was the first man the lion attach
[01:11.69]He caught the lion and got upon his 'ack
[01:14.29]A written that he killed a man with his
[01:17.32]And Sampson had his hand in the lion's jaws
[01:20.82]If I had my way
[01:23.78]If I had a a wicked world
[01:26.82]If I had a ah lord tear this building down
[01:32.74]'Well your riddle please a tell it to me'
[01:35.33]'A how an eater became forth meat'
[01:38.25]'Well your riddle please a tell it to me'
[01:41.04]'A how strong of it came forth sweet
[01:44.03]Deliah got his army after him
[01:46.48]Well the bees made a honey in the lion hair
[01:49.88]Well if I had my way
[01:52.51]Well if I had a a wicked world
[01:55.70]If I had a ah lord tear this building down
[02:01.76]Sewed me tow knot an' formed a plot
[02:04.48]Not many days 'fore Samson was caught
[02:07.22]A bind this hands whilst a walkin' along
[02:10.00]A looked on the ground and found a lil' jawbone
[02:12.86]He moved his arm ropes a pop like thread
[02:15.86]Dropped those threads free three thousand were dead
[02:19.62]Lord if I had my way
[02:21.59]Well if I had a a wicked world
[02:25.03]If I had a ah lord tear this building down
[02:30.31]Weh ell
[02:32.17]Samson's trick though they never found out
[02:34.91]'Till they began to wonder about
[02:37.57]A'till his wife sat up upon his knee
[02:40.35]'A tell me where your strength lie if you please'
[02:43.18]Samson's wife she a talked so fair
[02:46.25]Told his wife cut off a his hair
[02:49.17]'Shave my head clean as your hand
[02:52.19]'Till I become a natural man'
[02:55.16]Lord if I had my way
[02:57.70]Well if I had a a wicked world
[03:01.13]If I had a ah lord tear this building down