Chords for Dolores Keane - Emmigrant Eyes

_ _ [F] _ _ Oh, _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
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_ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] Ellis Island [F] was swarming _ _ [Bb] like a scene [F] from a costume [Gm] _ ball _
_ [C] Decked out in the colors [C] of Europe _ _ and [Gm] on fire with [Bb] the hope of [F] it all
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There [F] my father's [C] own father's [F] start huddled _ with [Bb] the tired [F] and the hungry and [Gm] _ scared _
_ [C] Tall of the century _ _ pilgrims _ _ [Gm] bound by the dream that they [F] _ shared _
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They were [F] _ standing in [F]
line just like cattle, _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ walked and sought and [Gm] shouted _ _ _
Somewhere [C] one desk [G] away from [C] sweet freedom, _ _ _ [Gm] some torn [C] from some lonely [F] _ love
[C]
To [F] this _ [Bb] sprawling tower [F] of Babel _ _ [Bb] came a young man [F]
confused [Gm] and alone _ _
_ _ [C] _ Determined and bound for America, _ _
_ _ [Gm] carrying _ [C]
everything that [F] he owned _
[G] _ [Bb] Sometimes when I look in my _ grandfather's elegant [F] _ eyes
I [C] see badly _ reflected, I can't hold [Gm] my feelings [F] inside _ _
[G] I [Bb] see starting with nothing and working hard all of his [F] life _ _
So [C] don't take it for granted, [Bb] say _ [C] grandfather's a migrant [F] died
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Now [F] he walks [G] and stares [F] out the window, _ _ _ [Bb] but his eyes [F] are still just [Gm] as keen _
_ [C] As the day he sailed through the harbor, _ _ _ [Gm] came ashore on the island [F] of _ [C] tears
_ [F] I hate _ _ [Bb]
grandfather's [F] days of number, _ _ [Bb] but I won't let [F] his memory [Gm] _ die _
_ [C] For he gave me the gift of this country _ and [Gm] the look in [C] his _ [F] emigrant's _ eyes
_ [Bb] Sometimes when I look in my _ _ grandfather's _ [F] emigrant's eyes
I see [C] badly reflected, _ I can't hold my [Gm] _ [F] feelings inside _
I [Bb] see starting with nothing and working hard all [F] of his life _
So [C] don't take it for granted, [Bb] say _ _ [C]
grandfather's [F] emigrant died _
So [C] don't take it for granted, [Bb] say _ _ [C]
grandfather's [F] emigrant died _
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