Isle Of Hope/isle Of Tears Lyrics - Voyage - Celtic Thunder

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 that isle of hope and tears 

Was Annie Moore from Ireland 

Who was all of 15 years. 

Isle of hope, Isle of tears 

Isle of freesom, 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. 

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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 15 years. 

Isle of hope, Isle of tears 

Isle of freesom, 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. 

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When they closed down Ellis Island 

in 1943 

17 million people had come there for sanctuary 

And in springtime when I came here 

And I stepped onto its piers 

I thought of how it must have been 

When you're 15 years. 

Isle of hope, Isle of tears 

Isle of freesom, 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. 

The isle of home is always on your mind.