Halley Came to Jackson chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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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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To see a bit of heaven
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shoot across the sky
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The one and only time daddy saw it fly

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Verse 2

It came from the east

just as bright as a torch

The neighbors had a party

on their porch

Daddy rocked the baby, mother said amen

When Halley came to visit in

1910

Verse 3
Now, back then Jackson
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was a real small town
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And it's not every night a
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comet comes around
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It was almost eighty years
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since its last time through
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So I bet your mother
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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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You wondered where it's going
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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

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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
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In 1986 that wish came 'round

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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