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ISLE OF HOPE

On the first day on Ja-nu-a-ry, Eight-een nine-ty two,

They o-pened El-lis Is-land and they let the people through.

And the first to cross the thresh-old of that isle of hope and tears,

Was An-nie Moore from I-re-land

Who was all of fif-teen years.

Isle of hope, isle of tears, Isle of free-dom, isle of fears,

But it's not the isle you left be-hind.

That isle of hun-ger, isle of pain,

Isle you'll ne-ver see a-gain

But the isle of home is al-ways on your mind.

In a lit-tle bag she car-ried all her past and his-to-ry,

And her dreams for the fu-ture In the land of li-ber-ty.

And cour-age is the pas-sport when your old world dis-ap-pears

But there's no fu-ture in the past when you're fif-teen years

Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of free-dom, isle of fears,

But it's not the isle you left be-hind.

That isle of hun-ger, isle of pain, isle you'll ne-ver see a-gain

But the isle of home is al-ways on your mind.

When they closed down El-lis Is-land In nine-teen for-ty three,

Se-ven-teen mil-lion peo-ple had come there for sanc-tua-ry.

And in spring-time when I came here and I stepped on-to it's piers,

I thought of how it must have been,

When you're fif-teen years.

Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of free-dom, isle of fears,

But it's not the isle you left be-hind.

That isle of hun-ger, isle of pain, isle you'll ne-ver see a-gain

But the isle of home is al-ways on your mind.

The isle of home is al-ways on your mind.