B       C#m        B      E
    You are  my sweetest down-fall
       F#       Abm            F#        E
    I loved you first,      I loved you first
                B         C#m     B        E
    Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
       F#    Abm     F#      E
    I have to go, I have to go
                   F#                   E
    Your hair was long,  when we first met

  ( F#  )
  
     F#  Abm         B
    Sam - son  went back to bed
                       E
    Not much hair left on his head
       F#     Abm      B               Abm                F#
    He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
        E        Abm       B                    B            E         
    And history books for-got about us and the bible didn't mention us
            B     F#     Abm                E         
    And the bi-ble didn't mention us, not even once


Abm  F#

  
B       C#m     B     E
    You are my sweetest downfall
       F#       Abm        F#       E
    I loved you first, I loved you first
                B         C#m     B        E
    Beneath the stars came fallin' on our heads
                 F#      Abm             F#       E        
    But they're just old light, they're just old light
                   F#                 E
    Your hair was long when we first met

   ( F#  )

    F#    Abm       B
    Sam - son came to my bed
                      E
    Told me that my hair was red
                  F#   Abm       B            F#
    Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
          E       F#       Abm       B          
    Oh I cut his hair my - self one night
                                  E
    A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
                              B
    And he told me that I'd done alright
         B                   Abm   
    and kissed me 'til   the mornin' light, the mornin' light
            B                   Abm
    and he kissed me 'til   the mornin' light   

G#m  F#  B  F#  E---(Fading away)

     F#  Abm         B
    Sam - son went back to bed
                       E
    not much hair left on his head
                   F#     Abm      B                  F#
    Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
            E        F#        Abm     B
    Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
             F#           B     E
    Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
                          B
    And history books forgot about us
             B      F#     Abm                   E         
    And the bible  didn't  mention us, not even once....


Abm     F#
  
B       C#m      B         E
    You are  my sweetest downfall
         F#            Abm
    I   loved  you    first