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Halley's Comet 1986 chords by
Darren Hanlon
Darren Hanlon

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Intro 1
G
D
C
G
D
C
G

Em
G
Em
G
C
G
D
C

G

C
G

Verse 1
G

Go shake the sleepy head of children
C
G

All lying like lumps in the bed I'll light
D

the stove and pour wa ter in the

kettle
C
G

And jam and butter on the bread
Em
G

Wake up you sleepy -headed children
Em
G

Wake up and out of bed
C
D

There's a visitor who's calling
C

And he'll soon be gone
G
C
G
C
G
C
D
G

again

D

Well, I might be a kid with a sleepy old head,
C
G

but I don't believe it's right
D

I never heard an old visitor come call
C
G

in' in the middle of the night
Em
G

Well, I'm gonna tell this visitor
Em

I don't think it's polite
G
C
D
C

To come around here callin' when everyone's
G
C
G
C
G
C
D

sleepin' tight
G

D

And mama says stop your moaning
C
G

and put something on your feet
D

This visitor is not the kind of fella you can
C
G

talk to walking down the street
Em
G

And go and tell your sister
Em

to put something on her feet
G
C
G

And wrap a blanket around your shoulder
D
C
G

And out the door to be sweet
C
G
C
G
C
D
G


D

Now we've got real nice neighbours
C
G

Both living on the left and the right

But I never thought I'd
D

see them out standing
C
G

In the yard in the middle of the night
Em

When I saw all our neigh
G
Em
G

bours I got an awful fright
C
D

All out in their pyjamas
C

Staring up into the deep dark
G
C
G
C
G
C
D
G

night

D

There's the old man living on the corner
C
G

And he's saying look up, look up

And the lady next door,
D
C
G

she's trying to pour hot tea in a little tin cup
Em
G

She points and says, look up there,
Em

follow my fingertip
G
C

And I stretched and
G
D

strained and squinted
C
G

And I said, I'd just give up

And she said,
Am
D

that thing you're trying so hard to see
G
C

Don't look at it directly
Am
C
D

It'll hide from you like an old gecko
C
G
D
C
G
D

on a gum tree
C
G

D

Well did my father's binoculars help?
C
G

Well that depends
D

If what he saw was a visitor and
C

not a scratch upon the lens
G
Em
G

Then someone says I see it,
Em
G

and another one says I think I see it
C
G
D

If there's a long and fiery tale,
C
G
C
G

then that'll be it
D

There's more stars out tonight,
C

a thousand times the national flag
G
D

And the old man's following a sky map
C

printed on the page from a local rag
G
Em

To the right of the
G
Em

High 80s, to the left of the
G

Pleiades
C
D

Like fishing for an aspirin,
C
G
C
G

loose at the bottom of a bag

The
D

High 80s are a bunch of stars
C

all shaped like the capital

A
G

And the other is the name of a video
C

game I always used to play
G
Em
G

I played the gameplay 80s
Em
G

all through the 1980s
C
D

3 worth of 20s
C

I'd waste the whole damn
G
C
G
C
G
C
D
G

day

D

It's strange to me how the yard can
C
G

be so quiet in the light of the moon

In the day we're told to not play on the
D
C
G

road where the cars all race and hoon
Em
G

All up and down the day time they
Em
G

race and howl and hoon
C
D

And send the cats all flying or else
C
G
C
G

meet their roadside ruin

We got five cats buried in the
D
C

garden and three across the road
G
D
C

and I remember their furry little faces every
G
Em

time I mowed the grass around the
G
Em
G

garden and the grass across the road where
C
D

we dig the bait worms wriggling to
C
G
C
G

the croak of an old cane toe
Am
D

she said that thing you're trying to
G
C

see don't look at it directly
Am
D
C
G
D
C

It'll hide from you like an old gecko on a gum tree
G
C
G
Em
G

Em
G
C
G
D
C
G
C

G
C
G
C
D
G


D

I still think of that visitor
C
G

Blazing through the endless black
D

If I'm still alive I'll be 85
C
G

If he ever makes it back
Em

Blazing out a trail
G
Em
G

Through the deep and silent black
C
D

He'll never look behind him,
C
G
C
G

and he'll never leave his track

Everything goes in circles,
C
G

we head back to where we've been

And all become the aggregate
C
G

sum of what lay in between
Em
G

It sure has been eye -opening,
Em

all the places that I've been
G
C
D

But that night -time sky ablaze,
C
D

all brilliant and amazing
C
D

Above the house that I was raised in,
C
G
C
G

still the prettiest thing I've seen

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