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

The song If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down is performed by Blind Willie Johnson in the album named Blind Willie Johnson and the Guitar Evangelists in the year 2005 .



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.

~



Blind Willie Johnson - Blind Willie Johnson and the Guitar Evangelists

Jan 2005

  1. Your Enemy Cannot Harm You
  2. Gospel Train Is Coming
  3. Mothers Prayer
  4. I'm So Glad Today
  5. Honey in the Rock
  6. Wouldn't Mind Dying if Dying Was All
  7. Let That Lie Alone
  8. There'll Be Glory
  9. Death Is Only a Dream
  10. Let Jesus Lead You
  11. Jesus Will Make It Alright
  12. Bye and Bye (When the Morning Comes)
  13. Jesus Is Sweeter Than Honey in the Comb
  14. With My Saviour I Shall Be
  15. O Lord, I'm in Your Care
  16. Everybody Ought to Treat Their Mother Right
  17. Then We'll Need That True Religion
  18. You Never Will Know Who Is Your Friend
  19. I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole
  20. Jesus Make up My Dying Bed
  21. It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
  22. Mother's Children Have a Hard Time
  23. Dark Was the Night -- Cold Was the Ground
  24. If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down
  25. In Time of Trouble Jesus Will Never Say Goodbye
  26. Letter from Father
  27. God's Riding Through the Land
  28. Men Don't Forget Your Wives for Your Sweetheart
  29. If My Saviour Holds My Hand I Will Go
  30. Jesus Went on Man's Bond
  31. I Heard the Angels Singing
  32. I Shall Not Be Moved
  33. Sleep On Mother Sleep On
  34. Lion and the Tribes of Judah
  35. Arise and Shine
  36. How Much I Owe
  37. Wrong Way to Celebrate Christmas
  38. This Time Another Year You May Be Gone
  39. I Have a Home in the Sky
  40. Just Beyond the Jordan River
  41. I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
  42. Hide Me in the Blood of Jesus
  43. I Wouldn't Mind Dying (But I Gotta Go by Myself)
  44. You Better Quit Drinking Shine
  45. I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge
  46. Jesus Is Coming Soon
  47. Lord, I Just Can't Keep from Crying
  48. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
  49. Does Jesus Care?
  50. Where He Leads Me I Will Follow
  51. Your True Friends
  52. Come and Go with Me to My Father's House
  53. When I Lay My Burden Down
  54. Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds?
  55. Let Your Light Shine On Me
  56. God Don't Never Change
  57. Bye and Bye I'm Goin' to See the King
  58. Sweeter As the Years Roll By
  59. You'll Need Somebody on Your Bond
  60. When the War Was On
  61. Praise God I'm Satisfied
  62. Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
  63. Take Your Stand
  64. God Moves On the Water
  65. Can't Nobody Hide from God
  66. If It Had Not Been for Jesus
  67. Go With Me to the Land
  68. Rain Don't Fall On Me
  69. Trouble Will Soon Be Over
  70. Soul of a Man
  71. Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right
  72. Church, I'm Fully Saved Today
  73. John the Revelator
  74. You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond
  75. Go I'll Send Thee
  76. Everybody Ought to Pray Some Time
  77. I Want Two Wings
  78. God's Mighty Hand
  79. Don't Want to Go There
  80. Where the Sun Never Goes Down
  81. God Don't Like It
  82. Lord Will Make a Way
  83. God Don't Like It
  84. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
  85. Death in the Morning
  86. I'm Gonna Do My Best
  87. I Don't Know How to Get Along Without the Lord
  88. Let That Liar Pass on By
  89. Do You Call That Religion?
  90. Jesus Loves Us All
  91. Two Wings
  92. Take a Trip
  93. Lord Will Make a Way Somehow
  94. Run Children Run
  95. I Got Two Wings
  96. Glory to Jesus, I'm Free

If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down