Emmylou Harris – My Baby Needs A Shepherd (Guitar)

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by Emmylou Harris, from her album 'Red Dirt Girl' (2000) Written by Emmylou Harris
D                               G               D
My baby needs a shepherd, she's lost out on the hill

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

      D                               G            D
And I tell myself I'll find her but I know I never will

                                A               D
My baby needs a shepherd, she's lost out on the hill

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

                                    A
She'll not reach sanctuary just by looking to the sky

  D                                    G           D                    
I guess I could have carried her but I didn't even try

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

D       
Oh, I ran so far through a broken land

      G              D                A
I was following that drummer, beating in a different band

D                           G             D
Somewhere on the highway, I let go of her hand

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Now she's gone forever like her footprints in the sand
Chorus:
      G           D              A                D
Toora loora loora lo, first the seed and then the rose

      G           D  G           D  A        D     
Toora loora loora li, my kingdom fo-or a lullaby

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My baby needs a pilot, she has no magic wand

                                     A
To help her part the troubled waters of the Rubicon

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But in my soul, I know she'll have to go this one alone

                           A              D
After all that is the only way she's ever known

D 
But there is no lamp in all this dark

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

  D                                  G                 D
I pray she rides a dolphin but she's swimmin' with the shark

                                      A            D
Out where none can save her, not even Noah and his ark
Chorus:
      G           D           A               D
Toora loora loora lo, to the cradle comes the crow

      G           D  G           D  A        D
Toora loora loora li, my kingdom fo-or a lullaby

   D                      G                 D
My baby needs a mother to love her till the end

                                   A
Up every rugged mountain and down every road that bends

    D                              G                   D
Sometimes, I hear her cryin' but I guess it's just the wind

                          A                 D
My baby needs a mother to love her till the end