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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.

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