Carpenter Mary Chapin

Carpenter Mary Chapin - Halley Came To Jackson guitar chord

HALLEY CAME TO JACKSON (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)

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[Capo 2; each chord is half a measure.]

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]

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

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

D D G D D D A D D D G D D D A D

[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

A A D D G D A D A A Bm G G G G D D A D

[instrumental]

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

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

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]

- Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu

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