Emmylou Harris My Baby Needs A Shepherd Lyrics

My Baby Needs A Shepherd Lyrics

My baby needs a sheperd
Shes lost out on the hill
Too late I tried to call
her
When the night was cold and still
And I tell myself Ill find
her
But I know I never will
My baby needs a sheperd
Shes lost out on
the hill

My baby needs an angel
She never learned to fly
Shell not
reach sanctuary
Just by looking to the sky
I guess I could have carried
her
But I didnt even try
My baby needs an angel
She never learned to
fly

Oh I ran so far through a broken land
I was following that
drummer
Beating in a different band
And somewhere on the highway
Ilet
go of her hand
Now shes gone forever
Like her footprints in the
sand

Toora loora loora lo
First the seed and then the rose
Toora
loora loora li
My kingdom for a lullaby

My baby needs a pilot
She
has no magic wand
To help her part the troubled waters
Of the
Rubicon
But in my soul I know shell
Have to go this one alone
After
all that is only way shes ever known

But there is no lamp in all this
dark
That could chase away her shadow
From the corners of my heart
I
pray shes ride a dolphin
But shes swimming with the shark
Out where none
can save her
Not even Noah and his ark

Toora loora loora lo
To the
cradle comes the crow
Toora loora loora li
My kingdom for a
lullaby

My baby needs a mother
To love her till the end
Up every
rugged mountain
And down every road that bends
Sometimes I hear her
cryin
But I guess its just the wind
My baby needs a mother
To love her
till the end