Song Lyrics Griffith Nanci - Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War)    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> G>> Griffith Nanci Singer Lyrics [Griffith Nanci other resources]>> Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Griffith Nanci Music Title/Track: Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) Theme ID: 10622 Album: N/A by 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 Chorus: 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 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 Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Outbound Plane, Saint Teresa Of Avila, Say It Isnt So, So Long Ago, Southbound Train, Sweet Dreams Will Come, Talk To Me While Im Listening, The Flyer, Theres A Light Beyond These Woods, These Days In An Open Book, This Heart, Three Flights Up, Wings Of A Dove, And So It Goes, Another Sleep Song, Grave Concern, Hey You (Looking At The Moon), I Miss You, Oh! Camil (The Winter Soldier), On The Line, Prison Song, Wild Tales, Be Yourself, Better Days, Chicago, I Used To Be A King, Man In The Mirror, Military Madness, Simple Man, Sleep Song, We Can Change The World, Lost Another One, Be Thou My Vision, Free, I Am Nothing, I Wanna Be Moved, If You Want Me To, Land of the Gray, Own Me, Someone Searching, Springs of Life, Symbol of a Lost Cause, I Am, Let Them Hear, Run To You, Something More, True Story, All I Want To Do, I Know Someone, Prelude, Other Griffith Nanci song Lyrics Always Will Lyrics Angels Lyrics Anyone Can Be Somebodys Fool Lyrics Anything You Need But Me Lyrics Back When Ted Loved Sylvia Lyrics Banks Of The Pontchartrain Lyrics Beautiful Lyrics Before Lyrics Boots Of Spanish Leather Lyrics Dont Forget About Me Lyrics Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Nancy Ajram Lyrics Nancy and the Boys Lyrics Nancy Martinez Lyrics Nancy Sinatra Lyrics Nancy Sinatra F/ Lee Hazelwood Lyrics Nancy Wilson Lyrics Nanette Inventor Lyrics Nanette Workman Lyrics Nanoo Lyrics Naoki Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy