John Stewart - An Account of Haley's Comet lyrics

This is the story as I remember it, of my first seeing Haley's Comet - of my seeing Haley's Comet. This was in Lexington, Kentucky, and I was living at the Transylvania Inn, the place I was born. My mother was operating that Inn. My father was a horse trainer. It must have been in the late spring or early summer, my mother came to me and said, "Let's go upstairs on the veranda." She said, "I want you to see Haley's Comet." To me it was only another star, so every night I went up and watched and as it got closer, what I though was a star, started to take on the look of a ball of fire with a tail behind it. Kentucky light shine Will it fall from the sky? Kentucky light shine Stranger in the sky Kentucky light shine Will it fall from the sky? Kentucky light shine Stranger in the sky And as it came around, it got bigger and bigger and lower and lower, till finally one night it was over the Tattersall's barn. It looked like that it just hovering over that barn and that it might fall at any minute. The horses in the barn were restless. They were thrashing around in the stalls. They were nickering. It was a nicker of fear. My father, several other men, went to the barn to try to quiet the horses. I went to my mother and I said, "Mother, I'm afraid." She says, "So am I." I said, "What can I do?" She said, "Well, ask God to spare us." It was so bright that there were dark shadows under the eves of the barn. I don't think I can describe that eerie light. It wasn't pure white, it wasn't red, it just seemed like a light that reached your very soul. Kentucky light shine Will it fall from the sky? Kentucky light shine Stranger in the sky Kentucky light shine Will it fall from the sky? Kentucky light shine Stranger in the sky