Carpenter Mary Chapin

Halley Came To Jackson

Carpenter Mary Chapin

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Halley Came To Jackson

	  		 
D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D    D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D 
{intro} 
A  A  D  D    G  D  A  D    A  A  Bm G    D  D  A  D 
{intro} 
 
D        D              G        D      D  D  G  D 
Late one night when the wind was still 
D                 D           A      D     D  D  A  D 
Daddy brought the baby to the window sill 
   D            D              G        D    D  D  G  D 
To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky 
    D            D          A      D    D  D  A  D 
The one and only time Daddy saw it fly 
 
   A             A            D           D 
It came from the east just as bright as a torch 
    G               D      A        D 
The neighbors had a party on their porch 
A                A            Bm     G 
Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen" 
     D              D        A        D 
When Halley came to visit in nineteen ten 
 
D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D    D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D 
{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 
 
A  A  D  D    G  D  A  D    A  A  Bm    G  G  G  G    D  D  A  D 
{instrumental} 
 
    D5 ... 
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 
 
   A             A             D           D 
It came from the east, just as bright as a torch 
    G             D            A       D 
She saw it in the sky from her daddy's porch 
   A            A      Bm       G {pause} 
As heavenly sent as it was back then 
     D              Bm         A        D 
When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten 
 
A  A  D  D    G  D  A  D    A  A  Bm G    D  Bm A  D 
{instrumental} 
D        D              G        D 
Late one night when the wind was still 
D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D. 
{instrumental} 
 
 
 
- Adam Schneider, [email protected] 
 
 
 

		  

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