HALLEY CAME TO JACKSON (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
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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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- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com