Halley Came To Jackson Lyrics - Carpenter Mary-chapin

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 

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 

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 

As heavenly sent as it was back then 

When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten 

Late one night when the wind was still