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