Halley Came To Jackson Chords

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Halley Came To Jackson by Carpenter Mary Chapin is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A, Bm and D5. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D    D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D 
{intro} 
A  A  D  D    G  D  A  D    A  A  Bm G    D  D  A  D 
{intro} 
 
D        D              G        D      D  D  G  D 
Late one night when the wind was still 
D                 D           A      D     D  D  A  D 
Daddy brought the baby to the window sill 
   D            D              G        D    D  D  G  D 
To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky 
    D            D          A      D    D  D  A  D 
The one and only time Daddy saw it fly 
 
   A             A            D           D 
It came from the east just as bright as a torch 
    G               D      A        D 
The neighbors had a party on their porch 
A                A            Bm     G 
Daddy rocked the baby, Mother said "amen" 
     D              D        A        D 
When Halley came to visit in nineteen ten 
 
D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D    D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D 
{instrumental} 
 
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 
 
A  A  D  D    G  D  A  D    A  A  Bm    G  G  G  G    D  D  A  D 
{instrumental} 
 
    D5 ... 
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 
 
   A             A             D           D 
It came from the east, just as bright as a torch 
    G             D            A       D 
She saw it in the sky from her daddy's porch 
   A            A      Bm       G {pause} 
As heavenly sent as it was back then 
     D              Bm         A        D 
When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen ten 
 
A  A  D  D    G  D  A  D    A  A  Bm G    D  Bm A  D 
{instrumental} 
D        D              G        D 
Late one night when the wind was still 
D  D  G  D    D  D  A  D. 
{instrumental} 
 
 
 
- Adam Schneider, [email protected] 
 
 
 

    	

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