Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) - Nanci Griffith

Love Wore A Halo(Back Before The War) (Album Version) - Nanci Griffith
Written by：Nanci Griff
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
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
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 them 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
When the men loved the women
And the women knew what men were for
When the men loved the women
And the women knew what men were for