Tom: C
C G
On the first day of January
F C
Eighteen ninety-two
F Dm F
They opened Ellis Island and they let
G
The people through
C G
And the first to cross the threshold
F C
Of that isle of hope and tears
F Dm
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
F G
Who was all of fifteen years
[Refrain]
F G7
Isle of hope, isle of tears
C Am
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
F G
But it's not the isle you left behind
F G7
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
C Am
Isle you'll never see again
F G F C
But the isle of home is always on your mind
[Verse 2]
C G
In a little bag she carried
F C
All her past and history
F Dm
And her dreams for the future
F G
In the land of liberty
C G
And courage is the passport
F C
When your old world disappears
F Dm
But there's no future in the past
F G
When you're fifteen years
[Refrain]
F G7
Isle of hope, isle of tears
C Am
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
F G
But it's not the isle you left behind
F G7
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
C Am
Isle you'll never see again
F G F C
But the isle of home is always on your mind
[Verse 3]
C G
When they closed down Ellis Island
F C
In nineteen forty-three
F Dm
Seventeen million people
F G
Had come there for sanctuary
C G
And in Springtime when I came here
F C
And I stepped onto it's piers
F Dm
I thought of how it must have been
F G
When you're fifteen years
[Refrain 2x]
F G7
Isle of hope, isle of tears
C Am
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
F G
But it's not the isle you left behind
F G7
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
C Am
Isle you'll never see again
F G F C
But the isle of home is always on your mind
