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