There used to be this fella name of Samson. Samson had taken this oath, well really his folks took the oath for him before he was born because God sent an angel who told them to. This oath included, among other things, that he was supposed to never, ever cut his hair. So it grew. When he grew up, Samson turned out to be quite a strong fella and won a bunch of battles against the Philistines (same bunch that would give David such a fit later on) because of his strength.

It seems Samson was a bit of a lady's man too and got all tangled up with this Philistine lady name of Delilah who was quite a looker. I know that because Dave was there and told me she was one hot honey. Anyhow, the Philistines had offered Delilah a bunch of cash to find out what made that durn Samson so strong.

Delilah kept after him to tell her where he got his strength from, seeing as how she never saw him go to the gym, and, after a long time, he finally caved and fessed up that it was his hair. Samson was a heavy sleeper too, and one night while he was asleep in Delilah's lap, she called this fella that worked for the Philistines  (he was a longshoreman who barbered on the side and this all happened during that big longshoreman strike of that year BC) and told him to shave Samson's head. The old boy did it and, sure enough, Samson was no stronger than anybody else. Directly, the Philistines whipped him real bad. I mean serious bad.

Now Dave was over there closing this deal for some kind of construction job and he seen this whole thing. He thought this big mound of hair that nobody was paying any attention to, might make a good souvenir to take home, as well as something to support this story since he was given to telling some tall tales. Anyway, when the fella that had cut it was about to pitch it in the can, Dave told him he'd take care of it for him. The fella was really a longshoreman, like I said, and barbering didn't pay nearly what longshoring did so the fella told Dave he'd sell it for 20 pieces of silver. Dave thought that was a bit steep, the exchange rate being what it is, so he just started to walk off. That fella saw his money start walking away and had some second thoughts. He hollered that he would let Dave have it for 10, Dave offered him 2 and they went back and forth until they finally agreed on 3.50. Since Dave is half owner of this here outfit, we got this here hair. It wasn't 'til several years later until this story got famous.

Now, I ain't no barber, but I figure a fella, even this here Samson fella, has only got so much. So you better get it while it lasts.

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