Halley Came To Jackson
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#----------------------------------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) ---------------------------------------------- [Capo 2; each chord is half a measure.] [intro] [intro] Late one night when the wind was still Daddy brought the baby to the window sill To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky The one and only time Daddy saw it fly 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 nineteen ten [instrumental] 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 [instrumental] 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 ... It came from the east just as bright as a torch She saw it in the sky from her daddy’s porch As heavenly sent as it was back then When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten [instrumental] Late one night when the wind was still [instrumental] - Adam Schneider [email protected]
