My Baby Needs a Shepherd

Following in David and Emily’s footsteps, here is another song for the wanderer………..

My baby needs a shepherd, she’s lost out on the hill,

Too late I tried to call her when the night was cold and still,

And I tell myself I’ll find her but I know I never will,

My baby needs a shepherd, she’s lost out on the hill.

 

My baby needs an angel, she never learned to fly,

She’ll not reach sanctuary just by looking at the sky,

I guess I could have carried her but I didn’t 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 I let go of her hand,

Now she’s gone forever, like her footprints in the sand.

 

Toora loora loora lo

First the seed, 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 she has to go this one alone,

After all that is the only way she’s ever known.

 

But there is no lamp in all this dark

That could chase away the shadow from the corners of my heart.

I pray she rides a dolphin but she’s 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 that’s just the wind,

My baby needs a mother to love her to the end.

Emmylou Harris

 

 

 

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