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