Love Wore A Halo (back Before The War) Lyrics - 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 4th of July 

She ran the numbers, they say she ran them clean 

And those porcelain hands keep a ledger even in her sleeves 

While he worked the See-Bees in the Philippines 

They say she made more money than you and I will ever see 

'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, they named her Stephanie Anne 

Hey, they sent her off to Vasser to find herself a family man 

'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 

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 their fishing their lives away in the Florida Keys 

'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 

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When the men loved the women 

And the women knew what men were for 

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When the men loved the women 

And the women knew what men were for 

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