Haley's Comet Lyrics - The Long Way Around - Tom Russell

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

In a pancake house down near the Rio Grande 

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

To me you look like one more tired old man" 

Well he walked all alone down on Main street 

Was a hot wind blowin' up from the south 

There were two eye's starin' in a pawnshop window 

A whiskey bottle lifted to his mouth 

There was no moon shinin' on the Rio Grande 

A truck of migrants pulled through town 

The jukebox was busted at the bus depot 

When Haley's comet hit the ground 

Well he blacked out all the windows in his bedroom 

He was talkin' to the ceiling and the walls 

Then he closed his eyes and hit the stage in 1955 

And the screams of the women filled the hall 

There was no moon shinin' on the Rio Grande 

A truck of migrants pulled through town 

The jukebox was busted at the bus depot 

When Haley's comet hit the ground 

Well a cop walks in a pancake house in Texas 

And he orders up two coffees to go 

He tells the waitress, "Baby, we just found the body 

Of someone who was famous long ago." 

There was no moon shinin' on the Rio Grande 

A truck of migrants pulled through town 

The jukebox was busted at the bus depot 

When Haley's comet hit the ground 

When Haley's comet hit the ground