Halley Came To Jackson - Mary Chapin Carpenter Chords
Chords: C, F, G, Am, C5
More chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Genre: folk, singer-songwriter, americana
[Capo 4; each chord is half a measure.]
[Intro 1]
C C F C C C G C C C F C C C G C
[Intro 2]
G G C C F C G C G G Am F C C G C
C C F C C C F C
Late one night when the wind was still
C C G C C C G C
Daddy brought the baby to the window sill
C C F C C C F C
To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky
C C G C C C G C
The one and only time Daddy saw it fly
G G C C
It came from the east just as bright as a torch
F C G C
The neighbors had a party on their porch
G G Am F
Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen"
C C G C
When Halley came to visit in nineteen ten
[Instrumental]
C C F C C C G C C C F C C C G C
C C F C C C F C
Now back then Jackson was a real small town
C C G C C C G C
And it's not every night a comet comes around
C C F C C C F C
It was almost eighty years since its last time through
C C G C C C G C
So I bet your mother would've said "amen" too
G G C C
As its tail stretched out like a stardust streak
F C G C
The papers wrote about it every day for a week
G G Am F
They wondered where it's going and where it's been
C C G C
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910
[Instrumental]
G G C C 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
C5 ...
To dream a little dream of a comet's charms
C5 ...
And he made a little wish as she slept so sound
C5 ...
In nineteen eighty-six that wish came 'round ...
C C G C
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