Lyrics My Baby Needs a Shepherd - Emmylou Harris

My Baby Needs a Shepherd

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