Mary Chapin Carpenter – Halley Came To Jackson (Guitar)

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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 shoot across the sky

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The one and only time Daddy saw it fly

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It came from the east just as bright as a torch

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The neighbors had a party on their porch

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Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen"

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When Halley came to visit in nineteen ten

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Now back then Jackson was a real small town

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And it's not every night a comet comes around

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It was almost eighty years since its last time through

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So I bet your mother would've said "amen" too

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As its tail stretched out like a stardust streak

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The papers wrote about it every day for a week

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They wondered where it's going and where it's been

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When Halley came to Jackson in 1910

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Now Daddy told the baby sleeping in his arms

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To dream a little dream of a comet's charms

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And he made a little wish as she slept so sound

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In nineteen eighty-six that wish came 'round ...

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It came from the east, just as bright as a torch

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She saw it in the sky from 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 nineteen ten

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Late one night when the wind was still