Halley Came To Jackson

HALLEY CAME TO JACKSON (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
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Late one night when the wind was 
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still
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Daddy brought the baby to the 
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window sill
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To see a bit of heaven shoot 
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across the sky
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The one and only time Daddy saw it
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 fly

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It came from the east just as 
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bright as a torch
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The neighbors had a party on 
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their porch
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Daddy rocked the baby, Mother 
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said "amen"
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When Halley came to visit in 
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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 
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bright as a torch
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She saw it in the sky from her 
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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 
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nineteen ten

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Late one night when the wind was 
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still
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