My Baby Needs A Shepherd(Chords)

	        
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 
                                A                 D 
Now she's gone forever like her footprints in the sand 


 
      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 



   D                       G             D 
My baby needs a pilot, she has no magic wand 
                                     A 
To help her part the troubled waters of the Rubicon 
    D                                 G             D 
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 
           G              D               A              
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 


 
      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
	        

Written by Emmylou Harris