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Late one night when the wind was still 
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Daddy brought the baby to the window sill 
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To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky 
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The one and only time Daddy saw it fly 
 
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It came from the east just as bright as a torch 
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The neighbors had a party on their porch 
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Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen" 
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When Halley came to visit in nineteen ten 
 
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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 
 
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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     ... D  D  A  D 
 
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It came from the east, just as bright as a torch 
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She saw it in the sky from her daddy's porch 
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As heavenly sent as it was back then 
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When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten 
 
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Late one night when the wind was still 
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- Adam Schneider, [email protected]