Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears sing and play along

On the little day of January,

eighteen ninetytwo, 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 Ire the land,

who was all of fifteen years.

Isle of hope, isle of tears,

isle of freedom, isle of fears,

but it's not the isle I 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 dreams pened for the future in the land of liberty.

And the courage is the passport when your old world disappears.

'Cause there's no future in the past who was when you're fifteen years.

Isle of hope, isle of tears,

isle of freedom, isle of fears,

but it's not the isle I 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 mind.

When they closed down Ellis Island in nineteen fortythree,

seventeen million people had come there for sanctuary.

And it's springtime when I came here and I stepped onto its pier.

I thought of how it must have been when you're only fifteen years.

Isle of isle of home is always on your mind.