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 neighbours had a party on their porch daddy rocked the baby mother said amen when halley came to visit in 1910 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 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 1986 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 1910 late one night when the wind was still 