Tablature haleys comet - Dave Alvin

          



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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                            C

  "Do you know who I am?" said Bill Haley

  G                               D 

  in a pancake house near the Rio Grande

  G                                         C

  the waitress said, "I don't know you from diddley"

  G                   D                G    C                 

  "To me you're just another tired old man"

  

  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

  C                 D              G 

  there was no moon shining on the Rio Grande

  C             D                       G 

  as a truck of migrants pulled through town

  C                   D             G   D/F# Em D  

  and the jukebox was busted at the bus de - pot

  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)

  

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  ' transcribed by Brad Mahugh       bmahugh@ix.netcom.com             '

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  Brad Mahugh

  e-mail:bmahugh@ix.netcom.com

  

  

   


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 Haleys comet, de Dave alvin 

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