Key: E major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Late one night when the wind was still
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Daddy brought the baby to the window sill
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shoot across the sky
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The one and only time daddy saw it fly
Verse 2
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It came from the east
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just as bright as a torch
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The neighbors had a party
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on their porch
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Daddy rocked the baby, mother said amen
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When Halley came to visit in
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1910
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Now, back then Jackson
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was a real small town
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comet comes around
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since its last time through
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would have said amen too
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As its tail stretched
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out like
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a stardust streak
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The papers wrote about
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it every day for a week
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and where it's been
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When Halley came to Jackson in 1910
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Now
Verse 5
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daddy
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told the baby sleeping in his arms
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To dream a little dream of
a comet's charms
And he made a little wish
as she slept so sound
Verse 6
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It came from the east just
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as bright as a torch
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She saw it in the sky from
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her daddy's porch
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As heavenly sent as it was back then
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When Halley came to Jackson in 1910
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And
Verse 7
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late one night when the wind was still
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE A B C#m
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