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Late one night when the wind was still
Daddy brought the baby to the window sill
D D G D D D G DTo see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky
D D A D D D A DThe one and only time Daddy saw it fly
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It came from the east just as bright as a torch
The neighbors had a party on their porch
A A Bm GDaddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen"
D D A DWhen 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
G D A DShe saw it in the sky from her daddy's porch
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As heavenly sent as it was back then
D Bm A DWhen Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten
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D D G DLate one night when the wind was still
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