Sean Keane - Isle of hope
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Isle of hope isle of tears
Sean Keane & Dolores Keane
https://www.facebook.com/seankeanesinger
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COn the Gfirst day on January,
FEighteeCn ninety - two,
TFhey Dmopened EFllis Island and they let
The peopGle through.
And the C Gfirst to cross the treshold
Of that F Cisle of hope and tears,
Was FAnnie MoDmore from Ireland
Who was F Gall of fifteen years.
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Isle of F G7hope, isle of tears,
Isle of C Amfreedom, isle of fears,
But it'sF Gnot the isle you left be hind.
That islFe of G7hunger, isle of pain,
Isle youC'll Amnever see a gain
But the F Gisle of Fhome is C always on your mind.
Verse:
In a 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
But there's no future in the past
When you're fifteen years
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Verse:
When they closed down Ellis Island
In nineteen fourty-three,
Seventeen million people
Had come there for sanctuary.
And in Springtime when I came here
And I stepped onto it's piers,
I thought of how it must have been
When you're fifteen years.
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