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

作词：Nanci Griffith

作曲：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 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