Hi Teribus,

It's not Ol Klear with me as, as most programmers will tell you, there's always one more bug.
In this case, I just realised there are no piers at Ellis Island, today. People seem to picture Ellis Island as an Alcatraz-like rock, while it's really just flat sand etc., be it with man-made additions. You don't need piers to be able to off-load passengers on the island, and the ferries simply moor on the quay-side.

Unfortunately, it's the final rhyme, and going through all the verses, so there's little we can do about it. I guess the easy way out is to return to IoHaT:

And in Springtime when I came there
To that Isle of Hope and Tears


Better, if you could make it work, would be something along the lines of:

And in Springtime when I came there
Their voices seemed to fill my ears
(They) made me think of how it must have been
When you're thirteen years.


It's hard enough getting the present right, I guess, never mind the past. But I'd rather have songs that make sense, including getting the facts right. Still, the folk process wouldn't work as well if every version had to be true.
Fields of Athenry, I don't like much, but that's because I think the lyrics are not good. If they're also not accurate, do we have that on forum? Same question for the other two, I guess.
                                                               Mysha