THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN BLUEGRASS BAND - IF I NEED YOU

IF I NEED YOU

THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN BLUEGRASS BAND

SONGWRITER: TOWNES VAN ZANDT

COUNTRY: CANADA

MOVIE: BE HERE TO LOVE ME

ALBUM: THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

LABEL: UNIVERSAL MUSIC JAPAN

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2012

"If I Needed You" is a song written by Townes Van Zandt and performed on his 1972 album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. It was covered 9 years later by American country music artists Emmylou Harris and Don Williams as a duet, and was released in September 1981 as the first single from Harris' album Cimarron. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.

If I needed you

Would you come to me,

Would you come to me,

And ease my pain?

If you needed me

I would come to you

I'd swim the seas

For to ease your pain

In the night forlorn

The morning's born

And the morning shines

With the lights of love

You will miss sunrise

If you close your eyes

That would break

My heart in two

The lady's with me now

Since I showed her how

To lay her lily

Hand in mine

Loop and Lil agree

She's a sight to see

And a treasure for

The poor to find