Halley Came To Jackson — текст песни (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

(Mary Chapin Carpenter)

Late one night when the wind was still
Daddy brought the baby to the window sill
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`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

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
Late one night when the wind was still