Regina Spektor – Samson (Ukulele)

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Chords

the chords are different to the original but i like singing along to this version :) Intro: C Verse:
C      Dm     Em      F 
  You are  my sweetest down-fall

F    G         Am        G           F 
  I loved you first,      I loved you first

F                C        Dm     Em       F   F
  Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth

    G      Am     G          F
  I have to go, I have to go

                      F               F -  F 
  Your hair was long,  when we first met
Chorus:
  G        Am         C
  Sam - son  went back to bed

  C                  F
  Not much hair left on his head

      G    Am      C                     C           G
  He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed

         G    Am       C                    C              F         
  And history books for-got about us and the bible didn't mention us

            C     G     Am                         
  And the bi-ble didn't mention us, not

F  - F
 even once
Verse:
C      Dm     Em      F 
  You are my sweetest downfall

F    G         Am        G           F 
  I loved you first, I loved you first

F                C        Dm     Em       F   F
  Beneath the stars came fallin' on our heads

    G      Am     G          F
  But they're just old light, they're just old light

                      F               F -  F 
  Your hair was long when we first met
Chorus:
G        Am         C
  Sam - son came to my bed

  C                  F
  Told me that my hair was red

  G    Am      C                     C           G
  Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed

  G    Am      C                     C           
  Oh I cut his hair my - self one night

     C                             F
  A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light

          F                C
  And he told me that I'd done alright

          C      G       Am                F
  and kissed me 'til   the mornin' light, the mornin' light

            C      G       Am
  and he kissed me 'til   the mornin' light
Outro:
  G        Am         C
  Sam - son went back to bed

  C                  F
  not much hair left on his head

  G    Am      C                     C           G
  Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed

  G    Am      C                     C           
  Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down

     C                             F
  Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one

          F                C
  And history books forgot about us

          C      G       Am                F
  And the bible  didn't  mention us, not even once....
Chorus:
C      Dm     Em      F 
  You are  my sweetest downfall

F    G         Am                  
I   loved  you    first