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Tommy Fleming - Isle Of Hope Isle Of Tears Ukulele Chords


C - Em - Am - D - G

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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,

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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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+  Yes, the isle of home is always on your

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