Mary Chapin Carpenter – Halley Came To Jackson (Ukulele)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# HALLEY CAME TO JACKSON (Mary-Chapin Carpenter) ----------------------------------------------
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[intro]

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[intro]

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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 And it's not every night a comet comes around It was almost eighty years since its last time through So I bet your mother would've said "amen" too As its tail stretched out like a stardust streak The papers wrote about it every day for a week They wondered where it's going and where it's been When Halley came to Jackson in 1910
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Now Daddy told the baby sleeping in his arms
To dream a little dream of a comet's charms And he made a little wish as she slept so sound In nineteen eighty-six that wish came 'round ... D D A D
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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

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[instrumental]
- Adam Schneider, [email protected]