Chords for Darren Hanlon - "Halley's Comet, 1986" (Official Audio)

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_ _ Go shake the sleepy [E]-headed children, [D] all lying like [A] lumps in the bed
I'll light the [E] stove and pour water in [D] the kettle and jam and [A] butter on the bread
[F#m] Wake up you sleepy [A]-headed children, [F#m] wake up and [A] out of bed
[D] There's a [A] visitor [E] who's called, _ _ [D] and he'll soon be [A] gone again
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_ _ _ Well I might be a [E] kid with a sleepy old [D] head, but I don't believe [A] it's right
I never heard an [E] old visitor [D] comes calling in the [A] middle of the night
[F#m] Well I'm gonna tell this visitor I don't [A] think it's polite
To come [E] around here cold _ _ [D] when everyone's [A] sleeping tight
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_ _ And mama says stop your [E] moaning or [D] put something [A] on your feet
This visitor [E] is not the kind of [D] fella you can talk to [A] walking down the street
[F#m] And go and tell your sister to put something on [A] her feet
[D] And wrap a [A] blanket around [E] your shoulder _ _ [D] and out the [A] door too sweet
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_ Now we've got real [E] nice [D] neighbours, both living on the [A] left and the right
But I never thought [E] I'd see them out [D] standing in the yard in the [A] middle of the night
[F#m] When I saw all [A] our neighbours [F#m] I got an [A] awful fright
[D] All out [A] in [E] their pyjamas, _ _ [D] staring up into the deep [A] dark night
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There's the old man living [E] on the corner [D] and he's saying look [A] up, look up
And the lady next door [E] she's trying to [D] pour hot tea in a [A] little tin cup
[F#m] She points and [A] says look up [F#m] there follow my [A] _ fingertip
And I stretched and [E] strained and _ squinted [D] and I said I'd just [A] give up _ _
_ _ _ _ And she says [Bm]
that thing you're [E] trying so hard to [A] see
Don't look at it [D] directly _
[Bm] It'll hide from you [E] like an old gecko [D] on a gum tree
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_ _ _ _ Well did my [E] father's binoculars [D] help?
Well [A] that depends
If what he saw [C#m] was a visitor [D] and not a scratch [A] upon the lens
[F#m] Then someone says I see it and another one [A] says I think I see it
If there's a long and [E] fiery tale _ _ [D] _
[A] then that'll be it
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There's more stars [E] out tonight, a [D] thousand times the national [A] flag
And the old man's [E] following a sky map [D] printed on the page from [A] a local rag
[F#] To the right are the [A] high [F#m] 80s, to the left are [A] the pleiades
[D] Like fishing [A] for [E] an aspirin, _
_ [A] [D] loose at the bottom [A] of a bag
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Now the high 80s [E] are a bunch of [D] stars all shaped like the [A] capital A
And the other is the name [E] of a video [D] game I always [A] used to play
[F#m] I played the gameplay 80s all through the [A] _ 1980s
Three dollars [E] worth of twenty, _ _ [D] I'd waste [A] the whole damn day
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_ _ _ _ _ _ It's strange to me how [E] the yard can be [D] so quiet in the [A] light of the moon
In the day we're told to [E] not play on the [D] road where the cars all [A] race and hoot
[F#m] All up and down the daytime they race and [A] howl and hoot
And send the cats [E] all flying _ or [D] else meet their [A] roadside ruin
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We got five cats [E] buried in the garden [D] and three across the [A] road
And I [E] remember their furry little [D] faces every [A] time I moan
[F#m] The grass around [A] the garden [F#m] and the grass [A] across the road
[D] Where we dig [A] the bait [E] worms wriggling _ through [D] the croak of an old [A] cane toe
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ She [Bm] said, that thing [E] you're trying to see, [A] don't look at it [D] directly _
[Bm] It'll hide from you [E] like an old gecko [D] on a gum [A] tree
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_ I still think of [E] that visitor [D] blazing through the [A] endless black
If I'm still [E] alive I'll be 85 [D] if he ever [A] makes it back
_ [F#m] Blazing out [A] a trail [F#m] through the deep [A] and silent black
[Dm] He'll [A] never [E] look behind him [D] and he'll never [A] leave his track
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_ _ _ _ Everything [E] goes in circles [D] we head back to [A] where we've been
And all [E] become the aggregate [D] sum of what lay in [A] between
[F#m] It sure has [A] been eye-opening all [F#m] the places that [A] I've been
[D] That [A] nighttime [E] sky ablaze, _ [A] all brilliant and [E] amazing _ _ _
[D] Above the house [A] that I [E] was raised in, _ _ _ [A] still the prettiest thing I've seen
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