PROCOL HARUM - AS STRONG AS SAMSON

AS STRONG AS SAMSON

PROCOL HARUM

SONGWRITER: KEITH REID; CHRISTIANSSON ULF & GARY BROOKER

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: EXOTIC BIRDS AND FRUIT

LABEL: CHRYSALIS RECORDS

GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK

YEAR: 1974

Procol Harum (/ˈproʊkəl ˈhɑːrəm/) is an English rock band formed in 1967. Their best-known recording is the 1967 hit single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies. Although noted for their baroque and classical influence, Procol Harum's music is described as psychedelic rock and proto-prog.

In 2018, the band was honoured by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was inducted into the brand-new Singles category.

Exotic Birds and Fruit is the seventh full-length studio album by British progressive rock band Procol Harum. It was released in 1974. Of special note is the release of the album in Argentina, calling the album "Pájaros Y Frutas Exóticas" (literally translated as "Birds and Exotic Fruit"). The cover artwork for the album is by Jakob Bogdani, a noted Hungarian artist whose paintings centred on exotic birds and fruit.

Psychiatrists and Lawyers destroying mankind

Drivin' 'em crazy...and stealing 'em blind

Bankers and Brokers ruling the world

Storing the silver and hoarding the gold

Ain't no use in preachers preaching

When they don't know what they're teaching

The weakest man be strong as Samson

When you're being held to ransom

Famine and hardship in true living colour

Constant reminders...the plight of our brother

Daily starvation our diet of news

Fed to the teeth with a barrage of views

Ain't no use in preachers preaching

When they don't know what they're teaching

The weakest man be strong as Samson

When you're being held to ransom

Black men and white men, and Arabs and Jews

Causing congestion and filling the queues

Fighting for freedom the truth and the word

Fighting the war for the end of the world

Ain't no use in preachers preaching

When they don't know what they're teaching

Weakest man be strong as Samson

When you're being held to ransom.