Sean Keane – Isle Of Hope chords

 Isle of hope isle of tears
Sean Keane & Dolores Keane
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 C      G On the first day on    January,
 F      C Eighteen ninety -      two,
 F      Dm      FThey    opened Ellis    Island and they         let
        GThe people      through.
        C       GAnd the         first to cross the      treshold
        F       COf that         isle of hope and        tears,
        F       DmWas     Annie Moore from        Ireland
        F       GWho was         all of fifteen  years.

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        F       G7Isle of         hope, isle of   tears,
        C       AmIsle of         freedom, isle of        fears,
        F       GBut it's        not the isle you left be        hind.
        F       G7That isle of    hunger, isle of         pain,
        C       AmIsle you'll     never see a     gain
        F       G       F       CBut the         isle of home is         always on your  mind.    

Verse:
In a little bag she carried
All her past and history,
And her dreams for the future
In the land of liberty.
And courage is the passport
When your old world disappears
But there's no future in the past
When you're fifteen years

Refrein:

Verse:
When they closed down Ellis Island
In nineteen fourty-three,
Seventeen million people
Had come there for sanctuary.
And in Springtime when I came here
And I stepped onto it's piers,
I thought of how it must have been
When you're fifteen years.

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