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- HALLEY CAME TO JACKSON (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
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- [Capo 2; each chord is half a measure.]
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- 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]
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- 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
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- 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
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- D D G D D D A D D D G D D D A D
- [instrumental]
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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
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- 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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- A A D D G D A D A A Bm G G G G D D A D
- [instrumental]
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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]
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- - Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu
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