Grateful Dead -
Dick's Picks Vol. 29: 5/19/77 (Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA) & 5/21/77 (Lakeland Civic Center Arena, Lakeland, FL)
Samson And Delilah [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down
Delilah was a woman, she was fine and fair
She had good looks - God knows - and coal black hair
Delilah she gained old Samson's mind
When first he saw this woman, she looked so fine
Delilah she climbed up on Samson's knee
Said tell me where your strength lies, if you please
Then she spoke so kind, she talked so fair
That Samson said, Delilah you cut off my hair
You can shave my head, as clean as my hand
My strength will come as natural as any other man
You read about Samson, all from his birth
He was the strongest man ever had lived on earth
One day while Samson was walking along
Looked down on the ground he saw an old jaw bone
Then he stretched out his arm and his chains broke like threads
And when he got to move, ten thousand were dead
Now Samson and the lion, they got in attack
And Samson he walked up on the lion's back
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paw
Samson got hands up round the lion's jaw
He ripped that beast, killed it dead
And the bees made honey in the lion's head
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down
Tear this whole building down!
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down
Delilah was a woman, she was fine and fair
She had good looks - God knows - and coal black hair
Delilah she gained old Samson's mind
When first he saw this woman, she looked so fine
Delilah she climbed up on Samson's knee
Said tell me where your strength lies, if you please
Then she spoke so kind, she talked so fair
That Samson said, Delilah you cut off my hair
You can shave my head, as clean as my hand
My strength will come as natural as any other man
You read about Samson, all from his birth
He was the strongest man ever had lived on earth
One day while Samson was walking along
Looked down on the ground he saw an old jaw bone
Then he stretched out his arm and his chains broke like threads
And when he got to move, ten thousand were dead
Now Samson and the lion, they got in attack
And Samson he walked up on the lion's back
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paw
Samson got hands up round the lion's jaw
He ripped that beast, killed it dead
And the bees made honey in the lion's head
If I had my way
If I had my way
If I had my way
I would tear this whole building down
Tear this whole building down!
Credits
Writer(s): Rev. Gary Davis
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
- Promised Land [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
- Sugaree [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
- El Paso [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
- Peggy-O [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
- Looks Like Rain [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
- Row Jimmy [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
- Passenger [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
- Loser [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
- Dancing In The Streets [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
- Samson And Delilah [Live at Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA, May 19, 1977]
Altri album
- Dead Trip or Treat (Live)
- Duke '78 (Live)
- U.S. Blues (Live at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke University, Durham, NC, 4/12/78)
- Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
- Got My Chips Cashed In (Live)
- From the Mars Hotel: The Angel's Share
- It Must Have Been the Roses
- Winter Solstice (Live)
- Wake of the Flood: The Angel's Share
- RFK Stadium, Washington, DC, 6/10/73 (Live)
© 2024 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.