Mary Chapin Carpenter - Halley came to jackson
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HALLEY CAME TO JACKSON (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
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[Capo 2; each chord is half a measure.]
C[inCtroF] C C C G C C C F C C C G C
G[inGtroC] C F C G C G G Am F C C G C
CLate one Cnight when the Fwind was Cstill C C F C
CDaddy brought the Cbaby to the Gwindow Csill C C G C
To Csee a bit of Cheaven shoot acFross the Csky C C F C
The Cone and only Ctime Daddy Gsaw it Cfly C C G C
It Gcame from the Geast just as Cbright as a Ctorch
The Fneighbors had a Cparty oGn their pCorch
GDaddy rocked the Gbaby, Mother Amsaid &qFuot;amen"
When CHalley came to Cvisit in Gnineteen Cten
C[inCstrFumeCntal]C C G C C C F C C C G C
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
G[inGstrCumeCntal]F C G C G G Am F F F F C C G C
C5 ...
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
It Gcame from the Geast, just as Cbright as a Ctorch
She Fsaw it in the Csky from her Gdaddy's Cporch
G G Am F [pause]
As heavenly sent as it was back then
When CHalley came to AmJackson in Gnineteen Cten
G[inGstrCumeCntal]F C G C G G Am F C Am G C
CLate one Cnight when the Fwind was Cstill
C C F C C C G C.
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