If I Had My Way I' d Tear The Building Down

If I Had My Way I’d Tear The Building Down
If I Had My Way I' d Tear The Building Down Lyrics

Song If I Had My Way I’d Tear The Building Down
Artist Blind Willie Johnson
Album Blind Man Blues: Blues from Within
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[00:01.31] Well, if I had my way
[00:05.27] I had-a, a wicked mind
[00:08.26] If I had-a, ah Lord, tear this building down
[00:13.75] Weh-ell!
[00:15.67] Delilah was a woman fine an' fair
[00:18.57] Her pleasant looks-a, her coal black hair
[00:21.36] Delilah gained old Samson's mind
[00:24.49] A-first saw the woman that looked so fine
[00:27.29] A-well went Timnathy, I can't tell
[00:30.22] A daughter of Timnathy, a-pleased him well
[00:33.13] A-Samson told his father, 'I'm going
[00:35.85] Help me Lord
[00:38.43] If I had my way
[00:40.88] Well, if i had-a, a wicked world
[00:44.46] If I had-a, ah Lord, tear this building down
[00:49.88] Weh-ell!
[00:50.97] Samson's mother replied to him
[00:53.82] 'Can't you find a woman of your kind and kin?'
[00:56.67] 'Samson, will you please your mother's mind?'
[00:59.57] Go'd and married that-a Philistine
[01:02.60] Let me tell you what, old Samson
[01:05.14] Well, he roared at the lion, the lion run
[01:08.42] Samson was the first man the lion attach
[01:11.22] He caught the lion and got upon his 'ack
[01:13.88] A-written that he killed a man with his
[01:16.87] And Sampson had his hand in the lion's jaws
[01:20.29] If I had my way
[01:23.11] If I had-a, a wicked world
[01:26.14] If I had-a, ah Lord, tear this building down
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[01:32.12] 'Well, your riddle please, a-tell it to me'
[01:34.65] 'A-how an eater became forth meat?'
[01:37.61] 'Well, your riddle please, a-tell it to me'
[01:40.54] 'A-how strong of it came forth sweet?
[01:43.53] Deliah, got his army after him
[01:45.67] Well, the bees made-a honey in the lion hair
[01:48.84] Well, if I had my way
[01:51.98] Well, if I had-a, a wicked world
[01:55.39] If I had-a, ah Lord, tear this building down
[02:00.94] Sewed me tow knot, an' formed a plot
[02:03.87] Not many days 'fore Samson was caught
[02:06.73] A-bind this hands whilst a-walkin' along
[02:09.56] A-looked on the ground and found a lil' jawbone
[02:12.39] He moved his arm ropes, a-pop like thread
[02:15.46] Dropped those threads free, three thousand were dead
[02:18.04] Lord, If I had my way
[02:21.13] Well, if I had a, a wicked world
[02:24.49] If I had a, ah Lord, tear this building down
[02:29.76] Weh-ell!
[02:31.55] Samson's trick though they never found out
[02:34.37] 'Till they began to wonder about
[02:37.06] A-'till his wife sat up upon his knee
[02:39.88] 'A-tell me where your strength lie, if you please?'
[02:42.76] Samson's wife she a-talked so fair
[02:45.65] Told his wife cut off-a his hair
[02:48.60] 'Shave my head, clean as your hand
[02:51.71] 'Till I become a natural man!'
[02:54.57] If I had my way
[02:57.18] Well, if I had a, a wicked world
[03:00.50] If I had a, ah Lord, tear this building down.
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