Chord/Tab song: Isle of Hope Isle of Tears

(orig. capo 2nd)

[C] [-] [Em] [-] [Am] [-] [D] [-] [G]

[G] [D] [C] [G]
1. On the first day of January, eighteen ninety-two,

[C] [G] [Am][D]
they opened Ellis Island and they let the people through.

[G][D][C][G]
And the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears,

[C] [G] [Am][D][-D7]
was Annie Moore from Ireland who was all of fifteen years.


[C] [D] [G][D][Em]
Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears,

[C] [Am] [D]
but it's not the isle you left behind.

[C] [D] [G][D][Em]
That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again,

[C] [D] [G]
but the isle of home is always on your mind.


[G] [D] [C][G]
2. In a little bag she carried all her past and history,

[C] [G] [Am][D]
and her dreams for the future in the land of liberty.

[G] [D] [C][G]
And courage is the passport when your old world disappears,

[C] [G] [Am][D]
but there's no future in the past, when you're all of fifteen years,


+ CHORUS


[+] [C] [-] [Em] [-] [Am] [-] [D] [-] [G]

[G] [D] [C][G]
3. When they closed down Ellis Island in nineteen forty-three,

[C] [G] [Am] [D]
seventeen million people had come there for sanctuary.

[G] [D] [C][G]
And in Springtime when I came here and I stepped onto its piers,

[C] [G] [Am][D][-][D7]
I thought of how it must have hurt when you're only fifteen years.




[C] [D] [G][D][Em]
Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears,

[C] [Am] [D]
but it's not the isle you left behind.

[C] [D] [G][D][Em]
That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again,

[C] [D] [G]
but the isle of home is always on your mind.



(orig. moves up half a note to capo 3rd here)



+ repeat CHORUS


[C] [D] [-][C][-][Em][-][Am][-][D][-][G]
+ Yes, the isle of home is always on your mind.