HALLEY'S COMET
(Mary-Chapin Carpenter)

Late one night when the wind was still
Daddy brought the baby to the windowsill
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 1910.

Now back then Jackson was a real small town
And it's not every night a comet comes around
It was almost 80 years since its last time thru
So I bet your mother would have said "Amen" too.

As its tail stretched out like a stardust streak
The papers wrote about it every day for a week
It wondered where it's going and where it's been
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910.

Daddy told the baby sleeping in his arms
To dream a little dream of the comet's charms
And he made a little wish as she slept so sound
In 1986 that old 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
It was heavenly sent as it was back then
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910.

Late one night when the wind was still. . .

copyright Mary Chapin-Carpenter
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