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, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu