Chords for Mary Chapin Carpenter, Halley Came To Jackson

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_ _ _ So this is a song that
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I can't hear anything _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I _ [A] _ can't remember anything
I can't see anything
I'm wearing contacts
but I wear glasses like Coke bottles
_ _ and I'm hot all the time
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ These fans are just to blow my hair [N] up
A _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] song
_ _ actually
it's based on a true story
or shall I say a beautiful anecdote
from the memoir of Eudora Welty called
One Writer's Beginnings
and in this beautiful book about [F#]
creativity
and the journey she [C] took to become a writer
she talks about how her father _
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he was a horse's dad
[C] he also killed for them in Jackson, Mississippi
So this is about the visitation of a comet
to a small southern town
in the year 1910
and of course the town was burned _ _
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[D] Late one night
when the wind was still on
_ _ _ Daddy brought the baby to the window sill
_ _ _ To see if it would catch him across the sky _ _ _
But one lonely [A] time
Daddy saw [D] the fly _
_ _ It came from the east, it was a [Bm] cotton torch
And the neighbors had a [A] party on their [D] porch
Daddy brought the baby, but he said
[G] Hey [D] man, I'm not going to visit in my _ detail _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] In the bathroom in Jackson was a real small town _ _
In the tiny [A] hideout of a [D] house above _
_ _ It was almost 80 years since it's last time through
_ [G] _ _ [D] So I bet you mother would have said
Hey man, tell you what _ _
As [A] it's tail was stretched [D] out like a star
And [Bm] the street was [G] paved with road by the [A] baby boy
And [A] wondered where it's going, [G] where it's [D] going
But happy in the Jackson, [A] I'm sure _ _
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Daddy put the baby sleeping in his arm
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_ _ [D] Dream a little dream of a college star
[A] To _ [D] _ take a little wish as she slept so _ _ sound _
_ [D] In 1986 [A] that wish came round
_ _ It [A] came from the east, [D] it was a cotton torch
She saw the [A] sky, and her daddy's porch
It's heavenly sound [Bm] as it was [G] back then _ _ _
[D] When happy in Jackson in _ _ [A]
1911
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_ The great white mountain [G] from the north was still there
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