As Strong As Samson

	  		
Intro 

| D | A | Em | G | x3 

verse 1 

Bm       G             D      D/C# 
    Psychiatrists and lawyers 
Bm       G         D      D/C# 
    destroying mankind? 
Bm   G             D      D/C# 
    Driving them crazy 
Bm        G             D 
    and stealing them blind 
Em               Bm      C          Em 
    Bankers and brokers ruling the world 
Bm           D/A        E/G#        A 
Storing the silver and hoarding the gold 

G                    A 
   Ain't no use in preachers preaching? 
F#                       Bm           A        D/F# 
   When they don't know what they're teaching? 
G                    A 
   Weakest man be strong as Samson 
D            Em   D/A      A    D 
When you're being held to ran- som 


Interlude 

| D | A | Em | G | x2 

verse 2 

Bm   G          D        D/C# 
    Famine and hardship 
Bm      G           D      D/C# 
    in true living colour? 
Bm   G          D      D/C# 
    Constant reminders 
Bm        G             D 
    The plight of our brother 
Em        Bm          C      Em 
Daily starvation our diet of news 
Bm         D/A          E/G#        A 
Fed to the teeth with a barrage of views 

G                    A 
   Ain't no use in preachers preaching? 
F#                       Bm           A        D/F# 
   When they don't know what they're teaching? 
G                    A 
   Weakest man be strong as Samson 
D            Em   D/A      A    D 
When you're being held to ran- som 



Instrumental 

A  Em 

| D | A | Em | G | x 3 


verse 3 

Bm   G              D        D/C# 
    Black men and white men, 
Bm      G          D        D/C# 
    and Arabs and Jews? 
Bm   G          D        D/C# 
    Causing congestion 
Bm       G           D 
    and filling the queues 
Em            Bm           C      Em 
Fighting for freedom, the truth and the word 
Bm           D/A         E/G#        A 
Fighting the war for the end of the world 


G                    A 
   Ain't no use in preachers preaching 
F#                       Bm           A        D/F# 
   When they don't know what they're teaching 
G                    A 
   Weakest man be strong as Samson 
D            Em   D/A      A    D 
When you're being held to ran- som 

G                    A 
   Ain't no use in preachers preaching 
F#                       Bm           A        D/F# 
   When they don't know what they're teaching 
G                    A 
   Weakest man be strong as Samson 
D            Em   D/A      A 
When you're being held to ran- /direct to outro 


Outro 

  D   A  Em  G 
-som           It ain’t no 
D     A  Em  G 
use 
D   A       Em   G 
O - o -      o 
   Ain’t no use 
D     A     Em  G 
O - o -      o 
   Ain’t no use 
D   A         Em    G 
O - o   -     o 
   Strong as Samson 
D   A  Em  G 
O - o - o 
D   A  Em  G 
O - o - o 

Fade 

Note: 
Do the E minor on line 5 of the verse with an upstroke.