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Isle Of Hope Isle Of Tears by Tommy Fleming




                 Isle Of Hope Isle Of Tears







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1.  On the first day of January, eighteen ninety-two,

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    they opened Ellis Island and they let the people through.

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    And the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears,

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    was Annie Moore from Ireland who was all of fifteen years.

 

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    Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears,

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    but it's not the isle you left behind.

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    That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again,

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    but the isle of home is always on your mind.
    
 

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2. In a little bag she carried all her past and history,

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   and her dreams for the future in the land of liberty.

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   And courage is the passport when your old world disappears,

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   but there's no future in the past, when you're all of fifteen years,

 

+  CHORUS  

 

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3. When they closed down Ellis Island in nineteen forty-three,

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   seventeen million people had come there for sanctuary.

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   And in Springtime when I came here and I stepped onto its piers,

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   I thought of how it must have hurt when you're only fifteen years.

   



 

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   Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears,

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   but it's not the isle you left behind.

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   That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again,
   
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   but the isle of home is always on your mind.

 

 

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+ repeat CHORUS

 

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+  Yes, the isle of home is always on your        mind.












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