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Artist/Band: Dave Alvin
Lyrics for Song: Haley's Comet
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Dave Alvin



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


In a pancake house near the Rio Grande


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


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





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]


There was no moon shining on the Rio Grande


As a truck of migrants pulled through town


And the jukebox was busted at the bus de-pot


When Haley's Comet hit the ground





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





[Chorus]





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"


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Dave Alvin


Dave Alvin
"Other Songs - Dave Alvin"


1. Blue Blvd
2. Dark Night
3. Everett Ruess
4. Every Night About This Time
5. Haley's Comet
6. So Empty
7. So Long Baby,Goodbye
8. Sonoraeath Row