Halley Came to Jackson

# # #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# ##This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # ##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # #HALLEY CAME TO JACKSON (Mary-Chapin Carpenter) # ---------------------------------------------- # Capo 2; each chord is half a measure. in[G DDDADDDGDDDAD tro] in[D DGDADAABGDDAD tro] D D G D DDGD Late one night when the wind was still D D A D DDAD Daddy brought the baby to the window sill D D G D DDGD To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky D D A D DDAD 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 in[G D DDADDDGDDDAD strumental] 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 in[D D GDADAABGGGGDDAD strumental] 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 pause A A Bm G As heavenly sent as it was back then D Bm A D When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten in[D D GDADAABGDBAD strumental] D D G D Late one night when the wind was still D D G D D D A D. instrumental - Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com