Chords for Emmylou Harris ~ When Halley Came To Jackson

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[C] _ _ [F] _ _ Late one night [Bb] when the wind [F] was still, _ _ _ _ _ _ Daddy brought the baby [C] to the [F] window sill, _ _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ To see a bit of heaven shoot across the _ sky, _ _ _ _ _ The one and only time [C] Daddy [F] saw it _ fly. _ _
[C] _ _ [D] _ [C] It came from the east [F] just as [Dm] bright as a [Bb] torch, The neighbors [F] had a [C] party on [F] their porch.
[C] Daddy rocked the baby, [Dm] Mama [Bb] said Amen, [F] When Hallie came to visit [C] in _ [F] _ 1910.
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_ _ [F] _ Now back then Jackson [Bb] was a real [F] small _ town, _ _ _ _ _ And it's not every night [C] a comet [F] comes _ around, _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ It was almost a year [Bb] since it's last [F] time through, _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [F] _ So I bet your mother would have [C] said [F] Amen too. _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] As his tale stretched out [F] like a [Dm] stardust streak, [Bb] The neighbors [F] wrote about it [C] every day [Dm] for a week,
[C] They wondered where it's going [Bb] and where it's been, [F] When Hallie came to [C] Jackson in _ 1910. _ _ _ _
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_ Now Daddy told the baby sleeping in his _ arms, _ _ _ _ To dream a little dream of the comet's charm, _ _ _ _ _
_ And he made a little wish as she slept so _ sound, _ _ _ _ _ In 1986 that wish came round.
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[F] _ [C] It came from the east [F] just as bright [Dm] as a torch, [Bb] She saw it in the [F] sky from her Daddy's porch,
[C] As heavenly sent [Dm] as it was [Bb] back _ then, _ _ _ [F] When Hallie [Dm] came to [C] Jackson in _ _ _ 1910.
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_ one night [Bb] when the wind [F] was _ _ still. _ _ _ _
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