Halley's Comet 1986 chords by Darren Hanlon
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Intro 1
(G major) (D major) (C major) (G major) (D major) (C major) (G major)
(E minor) (G major) (E minor) (G major) (C major) (G major) (D major) (C major)
(G major)
(C major) (G major)
Verse 1
(G major) Go shake the sleepy head of children
All (C major) lying like lumps in the (G major) bed I'll light
the stove and pour (D major) wa ter in the
kettle
And (C major) jam and butter on the (G major) bread
Wake (E minor) up you sleepy -headed (G major) children
Wake (E minor) up and out of bed (G major)
There's a (C major) visitor who's (D major) calling
And he'll soon (C major) be gone
again (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
Well, I might be a kid with a (D major) sleepy old head,
but I (C major) don't believe it's right (G major)
I never heard an old (D major) visitor come call
(C major) in' in the middle of the (G major) night
Well, (E minor) I'm gonna tell this (G major) visitor
I (E minor) don't think it's polite
(G major) To (C major) come around here (D major) callin' when (C major) everyone's
sleepin' (G major) tight (C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major)
And mama says stop your moan (D major) ing
and put something (C major) on your feet (G major)
This visitor is not the kind of (D major) fella you can
(C major) talk to walking down the (G major) street
And (E minor) go and tell your sis (G major) ter
to put (E minor) something on her feet
(G major) And wrap a (C major) blanket around (G major) your shoulder
(D major) And (C major) out the door to be (G major) sweet
(C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
Now we've got real nice (D major) neighbours
Both (C major) living on the left and the (G major) right
But I never thought I'd
see (D major) them out standing
In (C major) the yard in the middle of the (G major) night
When I (E minor) saw all our neigh
(G major) bours I (E minor) got an awful fright (G major)
All (C major) out in their py (D major) jamas
Staring (C major) up into the deep dark
(G major) night (C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
There's the old man living on the (D major) corner
And he's (C major) saying look up, look up (G major)
And the lady next door,
she's (D major) trying to pour hot (C major) tea in a little tin (G major) cup
She point (E minor) s and says, look up (G major) there,
follow (E minor) my fingertip
(G major) And I (C major) stretched and
(G major) strained and (D major) squinted
And I (C major) said, I'd just give up (G major)
And she said,
(A minor) that thing you're trying so (D major) hard to see
Don't (G major) look at it directly (C major)
It'll (A minor) hide from you (C major) like an (D major) old gecko
on a (C major) gum tree (G major) (D major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
(C major) (G major)
Well did my father's (D major) binoculars help?
(C major) Well that depend (G major) s
If what he saw was a (D major) visitor and
not a (C major) scratch upon the lens
(G major) Then someone (E minor) says I see (G major) it,
and another (E minor) one says I think I (G major) see it
If there's (C major) a long and (G major) fiery tale, (D major)
then (C major) that'll be (G major) it (C major) (G major)
There's more stars out tonight, (D major)
a thousand times (C major) the national flag
(G major) And the old man's following a (D major) sky map
printed on the (C major) page from a local rag
(G major) To the (E minor) right of the
High (G major) 80s, to the (E minor) left of the
Pleiades (G major)
Like (C major) fishing for an (D major) aspirin,
loose (C major) at the bottom of a (G major) bag (C major) (G major)
The
High 80s are a (D major) bunch of stars
all (C major) shaped like the capital
A
(G major) And the other is the name of a video
game I (C major) always used to play
(G major) I played (E minor) the gameplay 80s (G major)
all (E minor) through the 1980s (G major)
3 (C major) worth of 20s (D major)
I'd (C major) waste the whole damn
day (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
It's strange to me how the (D major) yard can
be so (C major) quiet in the light of the (G major) moon
In the day we're told to not play on the
(D major) road where the (C major) cars all race and (G major) hoon
All (E minor) up and down the day (G major) time they
(E minor) race and howl and (G major) hoon
And send (C major) the cats all fly (D major) ing or else
(C major) meet their roadside (G major) ruin (C major) (G major)
We got five cats buried in the
(D major) garden and (C major) three across the road
(G major) and I remember their (D major) furry little faces every (C major)
time I (G major) mowed the grass (E minor) around the
garden (G major) and the (E minor) grass across the (G major) road where
we (C major) dig the bait worms (D major) wriggling to
the (C major) croak of an old cane (G major) toe (C major) (G major)
she said (A minor) that thing you're try (D major) ing to
see don't (G major) look at it directly (C major)
It'll (A minor) hide from you like an (D major) old gecko on (C major) a gum tree (G major) (D major) (C major)
(G major) (C major) (G major) (E minor) (G major)
(E minor) (G major) (C major) (G major) (D major) (C major) (G major) (C major)
(G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (D major) (G major)
I still think of that (D major) visitor
Blazing (C major) through the endless black (G major)
If I'm still alive I'll (D major) be 85
If (C major) he ever makes it (G major) back
(E minor) Blazing out a trail
(G major) Through the (E minor) deep and silent black (G major)
He'll (C major) never look behind (D major) him,
and he'll (C major) never leave his (G major) track (C major) (G major)
Everything goes in circles,
we head (C major) back to where we've been (G major)
And all become the aggregate
sum of (C major) what lay in between (G major)
It (E minor) sure has been eye (G major) -opening,
all the (E minor) places that I've been
(G major) But that (C major) night -time sky (D major) ablaze,
all bril (C major) liant and amazing (D major)
Above the (C major) house that I was raised (D major) in,
still the (C major) prettiest thing I've (G major) seen (C major) (G major)
you
Halley's Comet 1986
Darren Hanlon
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