Love wore a halo (back before the war) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
He owned [G]a
hotel on [C]Jersey [G]shore
She made her [D]living seeing
the sailors [G]door to door
He was a small Hawaiian
with [C]a crooked [G]smile
But he made her [D]eyes light up like
the heavens on the Fourth of July
[G]She ran the numbers,
they say she [C]ran them [G]clean
Those porcel[D]ain hands keep
a ledger even in her [G]sleeves
While he worked the See-
Bees in the [C]Philip[G]pines
They say she [D]made more money than
you and I will ever see
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[Verse 2]
[Chorus:]
Cause love was a magnet
on the [C]Jersey [G]shore
If you were looking [D]for love boys,
you could have found it [G]in '44
Cause love wore a halo back
be[C]fore the [G]war
When [D]the men loved the women
And the women knew what

[Interlude 1]
men were for
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[Verse 3]
It was in the [G]winter when he [C]came [G]home
And he had to [D]hold those porcelain
hands just to keep her [G]warm
So they had a daughter,
her name was [C]Stephanie [G]Anne
They sent her off [D]to Vasser to find [G]herself a
[C]fam[G]ily[D][G]
[C]man[G][D][G]
[C][G][D][G]
She sold the hotel, it be[C]longs [G]to me
And I watch those [D]sailors come and
go by the waves in the [G]sea
From the poor chaps in
the [C]honeymoon [G]suite
And I hear them [D]fishing their lives away in the

[Outro 1]
Florida Keys
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