Halley Came To Jackson

Late one night when the wind was still Daddy brought the baby to the windowsill To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky The one and only time daddy saw it fly It came from the east just as bright as a torch The neighbors had a party on their porch Daddy rocked the baby mother said amen When Halley came to visit in nineteen-ten 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 have said amen too As its tailed stretched out like a stardust streak The papers wrote about it every day for a week You wondered where it's going and where it's been When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen-ten 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 It came from the east just as bright as a torch She saw it in the sky from her daddy's porch As heavenly sent as it was back then When Halley came to Jackson in nineteen- ten And late one night when the wind was still