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Thread #42644   Message #620670
Posted By: Sorcha
03-Jan-02 - 08:44 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Isle of Hope and Tears
Subject: Lyr Add: Isle of Hope and Tears
You mean this one from the Irish tenors?

ISLE OF HOPE AND TEARS

On the first day of January 1892
They opened Ellis Island
And they let the people through
And the first to cross the threshold
Of the isle of hope and tears
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
Who was all of 15 years

Chorus:
Isle of hope, isle of tears
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
But it's not the isle you left behind
That isle of hunger, isle of pain,
Isle you'll never see again
But the isle of home is always on your mind

In her little bag she carried
All her past and history
And her dreams for the future in the land of liberty
And courage is the passport
When your old world disappears
Cos there's no future in the past
When you're 15 years

Chorus

When they closed down Ellis Island in 1943
Seventeen million people had come there for sanctuary
And in springtime when I came here
And stepped on to it's piers
I thought of how it must have been
When you're only 15 years

Chorus