Blind Willie Johnson If I Had My Way I`d Tear This Building Down Lyrics

If I Had My Way I`d Tear This Building Down Lyrics

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



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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