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# Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 12:31:11 -0800 From: Brad Mahugh <bmahugh@ix.netcom.com> Subject: TAB:<haleys comet> by <dave alvin> HALEY'S COMET by Dave Alvin and Tom Russell (as heard on the album "Blue Blvd", Dave Alvin - Rounder Records) Intro (8 bars): |G'''|D'C'| (played 4 times) VERSE:
G"Do you know who I am'&qCuot; said Bill Haley Gin a pancake house near the Rio DGrande Gthe waitress said, "I don't know you Cfrom diddley" G"To me you're jDust another tiredG old Cman"
VERSE 2: He walked alone down on Main street a hot wind was blowing up from the south there were two eyes staring in a pawn shop window and a whiskey bottle was lifted up to his mouth CHORUS
Cthere was no moon Dshining on the GRio Grande Cas a truck of Dmigrants pulled through Gtown Cand the jukebox was Dbusted at the Gbus D/F#de - EmpotD C |G''''|D'C'|G'''|D'C'| when Haley's Comet hit the ground
VERSE 3: He blacked out all the windows in his bedroom he was talking to the ceiling and the walls he closed his eyes and hit the stage in 1955 as the screams of the children filled the hall (repeat CHORUS) VERSE 4: This cop walked into a pancake house in Texas and ordered up a couple of cups to go and he tells the waitress, "Hey, I just found the body of some guy who was famous long ago" (final CHORUS uses |G'''|D'C'| pattern played 4 times - same as intro) '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ' transcribed by Brad Mahugh bmahugh@ix.netcom.com ' '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Brad Mahugh e-mail:bmahugh@ix.netcom.com