| Исполнитель: | Brendan Graham (English) |
| Пользователь: | Kevin Breslin |
| Длительность: | 130 секунд |
| Начальная пауза: | 12 секунд |
| Названия аккордов: | Не установлено |
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On the first day of January, 1892,
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They opened Ellis Island and they let the people through.
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And the first to cross the threshold of that Isle of hope and tears
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Was Annie Moore from Ireland, who was all of fifteen years.
CHORUS
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Isle of hope, Isle of tears,isle of freedom, isle of fears,
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but it's not the isle you leave behind,
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That isle of hunger,isle of pain, isle you'll never see again,
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But the isle of home is always on your mind.
Verse 2.
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In a little bag she carried all her past and history,
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and her dreams for the future in the land of liberty.
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And courage is your passport, when your old world disappears,
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But there's no future in the past, when you're fifteen years.
CHORUS
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Isle of Hope , Isle of Tears, isle of freedom isle of fears
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but it's not the isle you leave behind.
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That Isle of hunger,isle of pain, isle you'll never see again,
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but the isle of home is always on your mind.
VERSE 3
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When they closed down Ellis Island in 1943
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seventeen million people had come there for sanctuary.
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In the springtime, when I came here,I stepped onto it's piers,
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And I thought of how it must have been , when your fifteen years.
CHORUS
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Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears, isle of freedom,isle of fears,
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but it's not the isle you leave behind.
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That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again,
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but the isle of home is always on your mind.
REPEAT CHORUS.