Dave Alvin - Haley's Comet guitar chord

HALEY'S COMET

by Dave Alvin and Tom Russell

Intro (8 bars): |G```|D`C`| (played 4 times)

G C

"Do you know who I am?" said Bill Haley

G D

in a pancake house near the Rio Grande

G C

the waitress said, "I don't know you from diddley"

G D G C

"To me you're just another tired old man"

G C

He walked alone down on Main street

G D

a hot wind was blowing up from the south

G C

there were two eyes staring in a pawn shop window

G D G C

and a whiskey bottle was lifted up to his mouth

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CHORUS:

C D G

there was no moon shining on the Rio Grande

C D G

as a truck of migrants pulled through town

C D G D/F# Em D

and the jukebox was busted at the bus de - pot

C |G````|D`C`|G```|D`C`|

when Haley's Comet hit the ground

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G C

He blacked out all the windows in his bedroom

G D

he was talking to the ceiling and the walls

G C

he closed his eyes and hit the stage in 1955

G D G C

as the screams of the children filled the hall

(repeat CHORUS)

G C

This cop walked into a pancake house in Texas

G D

and ordered up a couple of cups to go

G C

and he tells the waitress, "Hey, I just found the body

G D G C

of some guy who was famous long ago"

(final CHORUS uses |G```|D`C`| pattern played 4 times - same as intro)