Key: D major
Verse 1
of my first seeing Haley's Comet,
or my seeing Haley's Comet.
This was in Lexington, Kentucky,
and I was living at the Transylvania Inn,
the place I was born.
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My mother was operating that inn.
My father was a horse trainer.
It must have been in the light spring
or early summer.
My mother came to me
and said,
let's go upstairs on the veranda.
She said, I want you to
see Haley's Comet.
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star.
F#m
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And as it got closer,
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what I thought was a star,
look of a ball of fire
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with a tail behind it.
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G
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Kentucky Lights 9,
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will it fall from the sky?
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Kentucky Lights 9,
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stranger in the sky
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Kentucky Lights 9,
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will it fall from the sky?
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Kentucky Lights 9,
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stranger in the sky
And as it came around,
it got bigger and bigger,
and lower and lower,
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until finally one night,
it was over the tattersall's barn.
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It looked like that it was just
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hovering over that barn
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any minute.
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They were thrash
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It was a nicker of fear.
My father and several other men
went to the barn
to try to quiet the horses.
And I went to my mother
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and I said, Mother, I'm afraid.
She says, so am I.
I said, what can I do?
She said, well,
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ask God to spare us.
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It was so bright
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that there was
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a dark shadow
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I don't think I can describe that eer ie light.
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It wasn't pure white,
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it wasn't red,
it just seemed like a light
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Kentucky lights shine,
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will it fall from the sky?
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Kentucky lights shine,
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stranger in the sky.
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Kentucky Lights shine,
Em
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will it fall from the sky?
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Kentucky Lights shine,
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a stranger in the sky
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Kentucky Lights shine,
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will it fall from the sky?
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Kentucky Lights shine,
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a stranger in the sky
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