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Old 03-08-2018, 01:36 PM
jaymarsch jaymarsch is offline
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One good example of a song written from a sentence in a book is Mary Chapin Carpenter's When Halley Came to Jackson. She was reading a memoir by Eudora Welty who mentioned that when she was an infant in Mississippi in 1910, her father held her up to the window when Halley's comet came by. Mary wrote a whole story song inspired by that sentence.



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Jayne

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