If I Had My Way chords by Patty Griffin

Chords with lyrics

intro:
A7A7 E minorEm x8

chorus:
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
    D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
I would tear this building down
D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
Tear this building down

interlude:
A7A7 E minorEm x2

verse 1:
   A7A7          E minorEm
You read about Sampson from his birth
   A7A7          E minorEm
Strongest man that ever lived on earth
   A7A7          E minorEm
One day Sampson was walking alone
   A7A7          E minorEm
Looked down on the ground and saw an old jawbone
   A7A7          E minorEm
Stretched out his hand, swung it over his head
   A7A7          E minorEm
When he starts moving ten thousand was dead

chorus:
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
    D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
I would tear this building down
D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
Tear this building down

interlude:
A7A7 E minorEm x2

verse 2:
   A7A7          E minorEm
Sampson and the lion, they got in attack
   A7A7          E minorEm
Sampson jumped on that lion's back
   A7A7          E minorEm
You read about him, he killed a man with his paw
   A7A7          E minorEm
Sampson got his hands around the lion's jaw
   A7A7          E minorEm
Broke that beast till the lion was dead
   A7A7          E minorEm
Bees made honey in the lion's head

chorus:
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
    D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
I would tear this building down
D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
Tear this building down

interlude:
A7A7 E minorEm x2
D MajorD E minorEm A7A7 x4
A7A7 E minorEm x2

verse 3:
   A7A7          E minorEm
Delilah was a woman so fine and fair
   A7A7          E minorEm
She had lovely good looks and a cold black hair
   A7A7          E minorEm
Delilah gained on Sampson's mind
   A7A7          E minorEm
First saw the woman just to fill his time

verse 4:
   A7A7          E minorEm
Sit down on Sampson’s knees
   A7A7          E minorEm
Tell me where your strength lies if you please
   A7A7          E minorEm
She spoke so kind, talked so fair
   A7A7          E minorEm
Sampson told Delilah, cut off my hair

verse 5:
   A7A7          E minorEm
Shave my head, clean as your hand
   A7A7          E minorEm
And my strength will be like a natural man
   A7A7          E minorEm
Caught old Sampson by surprise
   A7A7          E minorEm
Picked up a stick and poked him eye to eye

verse 6:
   A7A7          E minorEm
Dragged him down to the judgment hall
   A7A7          E minorEm
Chained him to the stone cold wall
   A7A7          E minorEm
Left him there till his head turned brown
   A7A7          E minorEm
Sampson tore that building down

chorus:
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
A7A7     E minorEm
If I had my way
    D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
I would tear this building down
D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
Tear this building down
D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
Tear this building down
D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
Tear this building down
D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
Tear this building down
    D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
I would tear this building down
D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7
Tear this building down
    D MajorD     E minorEm  A7A7