Lyrics - Love Wore A Halo (back Before The War) by Griffith Nanci

by
Nanci
Griffith
He owned a hotel on
Jersey shore
She made her living seeing the sailors door to door
He was a small
Hawaiian with a crooked smile
But he made her eyes light up like the heavens on the
Fourth of
July
She ran the numbers, they say she ran them clean
Those porcelain hands keep a ledger even in her sleeves
While he worked the
See-
Bees in the
Phillipines
They say she made more money than you and
I will ever see
Chorus:
Cause love was a magnet on the
Jersey shore
If you were looking for love boys, you could have found it in '44
Cause love wore a halo back before the war
When the men loved the women
And the women knew what men were for
It was in the winter when he came home
And he had to hold those porcelain hands just to keep her warm
So they had a daughter, her name was
Stephanie
Anne
They sent her off to
Vasser to find herself a family man
She sold the hotel; it belongs to me
And
I watch those sailors come and go by the waves in the sea
From the poor chaps in the honeymoon suite
And
I hear them fishing their lives away in the
Florida
Keys

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