The New Ground Isle Of Hope Isle Of Tears Cifras

[Verse]
         G                   Em
On the first day of January 1892
        C                          D
They opened Ellis Island and they let the people through
          G                                   Em
And the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears
     C                                D
Was Annie Moore from Ireland who was all of 15 years
 
 
[Chorus]
         Em             D
Isle of hope, isle of tears
          C                G
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
         Em                C        D
But it’s not the isle you left behind
               Em              D
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
              C          G
Isle you’ll never see again
          Em              C              G
But the isle of home is always on your mind
 
 
[Verse]
       G                              Em
In a little bag, she carried all her past and history
           C                           D
And her dreams for the future in the land of liberty
      G                                Em
And courage is the passport when your old world disappears
      C                             D
But there’s no future in the past when you’re 15 years
 
 
[Chorus]
         Em            D
Isle of hope, isle of tears
           C               G
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
          Em                C      D
But it’s not the isle you left behind
              Em               D
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
               C        G
Isle you’ll never see again
          E                C             G
But the isle of home is always on your mind
 
 
[Verse]
             G                         Em
When they closed down Ellis Island in 1943
 C                           D
17 million people had come there for sanctuary
 G                                         Em
And in springtime when I came here and I stepped onto its piers
     C                               D
I thought of how it must have been when you’re 15 years
 
 
[Chorus]
         Em             D
Isle of hope, isle of tears
          C                G
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
         Em                C       D
But it’s not the isle you left behind
               Em             D
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
              C          G
Isle you’ll never see again
          Em              C              G
But the isle of home is always on your mind
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