If I Had My Way, I'd Tear the Building Down-Blind Willie Johnson

[ti:If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down] [ar:Blind Willie Johnson] [al:Original Vintage Delta Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down (我宁愿把这建筑拆掉) - Blind Willie Johnson [00:00.80]Written by：Willie Johnson [00:01.61]Well if I had my way [00:04.33] [00:05.87]I had a a wicked mind [00:08.63]If I had a ah lord tear this building down [00:13.60] [00:14.25]Weh ell [00:14.98] [00:16.25]Delilah was a woman fine an' fair [00:19.03]Her pleasant looks a her coal black hair [00:21.40] [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 [00:30.21] [00:30.80]A daughter of timnathy a pleased him well [00:33.12] [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 [00:41.10] [00:41.66]Well if a had a a wicked world [00:45.25]If I had a ah lord tear this building down [00:49.76] [00:50.31]Weh ell [00:50.91] [00:51.56]Samson's mother replied to him [00:53.75] [00:54.44]'Can't you find a woman of your kind and kin' [00:56.52] [00:57.10]'Samson will you please your mother's mind' [00:59.47] [01:00.18]Go'd and married that a philistine [01:02.14] [01:03.12]Let me tell you what old Samson [01:05.32]Well he roared at the lion the lion run [01:08.35] [01:09.04]Samson was the first man the lion attach [01:11.12] [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 [01:20.31] [01:20.82]If I had my way [01:22.47] [01:23.78]If I had a a wicked world [01:26.82]If I had a ah lord tear this building down [01:32.04] [01:32.74]'Well your riddle please a tell it to me' [01:35.33]'A how an eater became forth meat' [01:37.46] [01:38.25]'Well your riddle please a tell it to me' [01:40.49] [01:41.04]'A how strong of it came forth sweet [01:43.45] [01:44.03]Deliah got his army after him [01:45.97] [01:46.48]Well the bees made a honey in the lion hair [01:49.23] [01:49.88]Well if I had my way [01:51.53] [01:52.51]Well if I had a a wicked world [01:55.70]If I had a ah lord tear this building down [02:00.58] [02:01.76]Sewed me tow knot an' formed a plot [02:03.87] [02:04.48]Not many days 'fore Samson was caught [02:06.55] [02:07.22]A bind this hands whilst a walkin' along [02:09.32] [02:10.00]A looked on the ground and found a lil' jawbone [02:12.26] [02:12.86]He moved his arm ropes a pop like thread [02:15.08] [02:15.86]Dropped those threads free three thousand were dead [02:18.79] [02:19.62]Lord if I had my way [02:21.03] [02:21.59]Well if I had a a wicked world [02:25.04]If I had a ah lord tear this building down [02:29.44] [02:30.32]Weh ell [02:30.98] [02:32.18]Samson's trick though they never found out [02:34.08] [02:34.92]'Till they began to wonder about [02:36.93] [02:37.58]A'till his wife sat up upon his knee [02:40.36]'A tell me where your strength lie if you please' [02:43.19]Samson's wife she a talked so fair [02:45.57] [02:46.26]Told his wife cut off a his hair [02:48.46] [02:49.18]'Shave my head clean as your hand [02:51.62] [02:52.20]'Till I become a natural man' [02:54.66] [02:55.17]Lord if I had my way [02:56.95] [02:57.71]Well if I had a a wicked world [03:01.13]If I had a ah lord tear this building down