Isle Of Hope, Isle of Tears - Tommy Flemming [Intro] C Em Am D G [Verse 1] G D Em G On the first day of January, eighteen ninety--two, C G Am D they opened Ellis Island and they let the people through. G D Em G And the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears, C G Am D was Annie Moore from Ireland who was all of fifteen years. [Chorus] C D G D Em Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears, C Am D but it's not the isle you left be--hind. C D G D Em That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see ag--ain, C D G but the isle of home is always on your mind. [Verse 2] G D Em G In a little bag she carried all her past and his--tory, C G Am D and her dreams for the future in the land of liber--ty. G D Em G And courage is the passport when your old world disap--pears, C G Am D but there's no future in the past, when you're all of fifteen years, [Chorus] C D G D Em Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears, C Am D but it's not the isle you left be--hind. C D G D Em That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see ag--ain, C D G but the isle of home is always on your mind. [Instrumental] C Em Am D G [Verse 3] G D Em G When they closed down Ellis Island in nineteen forty--three, C G Am D seventeen million people had come there for sanct--uary. G D Em G And in the Springtime when I came here and I stepped onto its piers, C G Am D I thought of how it must have hurt when you're only fifteen years. [Chorus] C D G D Em Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears, C Am D but it's not the isle you left be--hind. C D G D Em That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see ag--ain, C D G but the isle of home is always on your mind. C D G D Em That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see ag--ain, C D G Em Am D G but the isle of home is always on your mind.