Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Greg Brown
Canonical path: /greg-brown/the-last-shepherd
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Last Shepherd
Read The Last Shepherd lyrics by Greg Brown on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Last Shepherd
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Men worked all day to sell me death
And chain me to their time
So I took a sheep and began to climb
To my own heart and breath
This must be the last good place
The smoke can't rise so high
I might be content to die
Wearing a weathered face
The song of the hills will break someday
For the laugh of a businessman
And the mad dogs will catch me if they can
When my sheep are gone away.
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Greg Brown performs "The Last Shepherd", and this lyric page sits inside the Greg Brown catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to Almost Out of Gas and 'Cept You & Me, Babe with a short reason for opening each page next.
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