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Love wore a halo (back before the war) easy guitar chords by
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith

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Intro 1
D
G
C
G
D
G


Verse 1
G

He owned a
C
G

hotel on Jersey shore
D

She made her living seeing
G

the sailors door to door

He was a small Hawaiian
C
G

with a crooked smile
D

But he made her eyes light up like

the heavens on the Fourth of July
G

She ran the numbers,
C
G

they say she ran them clean
D

Those porcelain hands keep
G

a ledger even in her sleeves

While he worked the See-
C
G

Bees in the Philippines
D

They say she made more money than

you and I will ever see
G
Verse 2


[Chorus:]

Cause love was a magnet
C
G

on the Jersey shore
D

If you were looking for love boys,
G

you could have found it in '44

Cause love wore a halo back
C
G

before the war
D

When the men loved the women

And the women knew what
Interlude 1

men were for
G
D
G
D
G

Verse 3
G
C
G

It was in the winter when he came home
D

And he had to hold those porcelain
G

hands just to keep her warm

So they had a daughter,
C
G

her name was Stephanie Anne
D
G

They sent her off to Vasser to find herself a
C
G
D
G

family
C
G
D
G

man
C
G
D
G

C
G

She sold the hotel, it belongs to me
D

And I watch those sailors come and
G

go by the waves in the sea

From the poor chaps in
C
G

the honeymoon suite
D

And I hear them fishing their lives away in the
Outro 1

Florida Keys
G
D
G
C
G
D

G
C
G
D

G
D
G
D

G

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