If I Had My Way

If I Had My Way - Patty Griffin/Ann McCrary/Regina McCrary

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

I would tear this building down

Tear this building down

You read about Sampson from his birth

Strongest man that ever lived on earth

One day Sampson was walking alone

Looked down on the ground

And saw an old jawbone

Stretched out his hand

Swung it over his head

When he starts moving ten

Thousand was dead

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

I would tear this building down

Tear this building down

Sampson and the lion they got in attack

Sampson jumped on that lion's back

You read about him

He killed a man with his paw

Sampson got his hands

Around the lion's jaw

Broke that beast till the lion was dead

Bees made honey in the lion's head

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

I would tear this building down

Tear this building down

Delilah was a woman so fine and fair

She had lovely good looks and a cold black hair

Delilah gained on Sampson's mind

First saw the woman just to fill his time

Sit down on Sampson's knees

Tell me where your strength lies if you please

She spoke so kind talked so fair

Sampson told Delilah cut off my hair

Shave my head clean as your hand

And my strength will be like a natural man

Caught old Sampson by surprise

Picked up a stick and poked him eye to eye

Dragged him down to the judgment hall

Chained him to the stone cold wall

Left him there till his head turned brown

Sampson tore that building down

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

If I had my way

I would tear this building down

Tear this building down

Tear this building down

Tear this building down

Tear this building down

I would tear this building down

Tear this building down

I would tear this building down