Love wore a halo (back before the war) chords by Nanci Griffith
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Intro 1
(D major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
Verse 1
He owned a (G major)
hotel on (C major) Jersey shore (G major)
She made her (D major) living seeing
the sailors door (G major) to door
He was a small Hawaiian
with a crooked (C major) smile (G major)
But he made her eye (D major) s light up like
the heavens on the Fourth of July
(G major) She ran the numbers,
they say she (C major) ran them clean (G major)
Those porcel (D major) ain hands keep
a ledger even in her sleeves (G major)
While he worked the See-
Bees in the (C major) Philip (G major) pines
They say she made (D major) more money than
you and I will ever see
(G major)
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Verse 2
[Chorus:]
Cause love was a magnet
on the (C major) Jersey shore (G major)
If you were looking (D major) for love boys,
you could have found it (G major) in '44
Cause love wore a halo back
be (C major) fore the war (G major)
When the men (D major) loved the women
And the women knew what
Interlude 1
men were for
(G major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
Verse 3
It was in the winter (G major) when he (C major) came (G major) home
And he had to hold (D major) those porcelain
hands just to keep her warm (G major)
So they had a daughter,
her name was (C major) Stephanie Anne (G major)
They sent her off (D major) to Vasser to find herself (G major) a
(C major) (G major) (D major) family (G major)
(C major) (G major) man (D major) (G major)
(C major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
She sold the hotel, it be (C major) longs to me (G major)
And I watch those sailors (D major) come and
go by the waves in the (G major) sea
From the poor chaps in
the (C major) honeymoon suite (G major)
And I hear them (D major) fishing their lives away in the
Outro 1
Florida Keys
(G major) (D major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
(G major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(G major)
Love wore a halo (back before the war)
Nanci griffith
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