Songbook

Samson

By Regina Spektor

[Intro]
B

[Verse]
B      C#m     B/D#        Eadd9
  You are my sweetest downfall
E    F#          G#m      F#          E
  I loved you first, I loved you first
   E           B       C#m    B/D#     Eadd9
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
  F#        G#m   F#         E
I have to go, I have to go
              Esus2*               E    Esus2
Your hair was long, when we first met

[Chorus]
F#  G#m       B
Samson went back to bed
B                  E
Not much hair left on his head
    F#    G#m       B                     B             F#
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
    F#         G#m     B                    B               E
And history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us
        B     F#/A#      G#m                Eadd9      E
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

[Verse]
B      C#m     B/D#      Eadd9
  You are my sweetest downfall
E   F#           G#m      F#         Eadd9
  I loved you first, I loved you first
E               B         C#m      B/D#    Eadd9  E
  Beneath the stars came fallin' on our heads
            F#          G#m           F#          E
But they're just old light, they're just old light
              Esus2*             E      Esus2
Your hair was long when we first met

[Chorus]
F#  G#m       B
Samson came to my bed
B                    E
Told me that my hair was red
F#       G#m    B             B            F#
Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
     F#       G#m     B
Oh I cut his hair myself one night
   B                           E
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
        E                B
And he told me that I'd done alright
     B         F#/A#    G#m                 E
and kissed me 'til the mornin' light, the mornin' light
       B          F#/A#    G#m        E      Eadd9
and he kissed me 'til the mornin' light

[Instrumental]
B  F#/A#  G#m

[Chorus]
F#  G#m       B
Samson went back to bed
B                  E
not much hair left on his head
F#     G#m       B                    B             F#
Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
       F#        G#m        B
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
        B                   E
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
    E                B
And history books forgot about us
        B     F#/A#     G#m                 E    Eadd9
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

[Outro]
B      C#m    B/D#      Eadd9
  You are my sweetest downfall
E   F#sus2  F#    G#m
I  loved   you  first