The New Ground-isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears Lyrics - Songs From The Heart - Celtic Woman

[** feat. Agnew, Hilary, Kelly, Nesbitt, Sharpe:] 

On The First Day On January, 

Eighteen Ninety-Two, 

They Opened Ellis Island And They Let 

The People Through. 

And The First To Cross The Treshold 

Of That Isle Of Hope And Tears, 

Was Annie Moore From Ireland 

Who Was All Of Fifteen Years. 

[Chorus:] 

Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears, 

Isle Of Freedom, 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. 

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 

[Repeat Chorus:] 

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. 

[Repeat Chorus:] 

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