Halley's Comet

[Intro] Once in a life, if the timing is kind [Verse 1] Two hundred forty years before your calendar began Chinese astronomers wrote me down I hung above the Norman ships in ten sixty-six And they sewed me into Bayeux's gown Every seventy-six years or so I come back in from the cold Same ice, same dust, same long return And every time, a different world to behold [Chorus] See you in twenty sixty-one That's the promise, that's the deal I'll be the one that your grandchildren see And try to tell you how it feels [Verse 2] Edmond Halley did the arithmetic Saw the same comet in three different years Said: it will come back in seventeen fifty-eight And died before the proof appeared It came. They named me after him. A man who never saw his own reward Mark Twain came in with me and left with me Seventy-six years, to the word [Bridge] Nineteen eighty-six, I passed and you were watching Giotto flew right up to my face Five spacecraft came to see me that year And I left them all in place [Final Chorus] See you in twenty sixty-one That's the promise, that's the deal I'll be the one that your grandchildren see And try to tell you how it feels [Outro] Once in a life Don't miss it twice