Halley Came To Jackson

{intro} {intro} Late one night when the wind was still Daddy brought the baby to the window sill To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky The one and only time Daddy saw it fly It came from the east just as bright as a torch The neighbors had a party on their porch Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen" When Halley came to visit in nineteen ten {instrumental} 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 {instrumental} ... 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 ... It came from the east, just as bright as a torch She saw it in the sky from her daddy's porch {pause} As heavenly sent as it was back then When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten {instrumental} Late one night when the wind was still D. {instrumental} - Adam Schneider, [email protected]