Isle Of Hope Isle Of Tears Chords by Pádraig Mór

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] On the first [Bm] day of _ January, _
[G] _ _ [D] 1892, _ _ _
[G] They opened Ellis [Bm] Island, [G] and they let the people [A] _ through.
And [D] the first to [Bm] cross the threshold [G] of that Isle of Hope [D] and Tear,
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Was Annie [Bm] Moorer from Ireland, [G] it was all of [A] fifteen _ _ years.
_ _ [G] Isle of Hope, Isle [A] of Fears, [D] Isle of [F#m] Freedom, [Bm] Isle of Fear,
[G] But it's not the Isle you left _ [A] behind, _ _ _
_ [Em] That [G] Isle of Hunger, Isle [A] of Pain, _ [D] Isle you'll never [A] see [Bm] _
again,
[G] But the Isle of [A] Home is always [Bm] on your mind. _
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_ _ [D] In the little _ [Bm] bag she carried _ [G] all her past and [D] history,
_ _ [G] And her dreams for [Bm] the future in [G] the land of [A] _
liberty,
_ [D] And courage is [Bm] the passport when [G] your old world _ [D]
disappears,
_ [G] But there is no [Bm] future in the past [G] when you're only [F#m] fifteen [A] _
_ years.
_ Isle [G] of Hope, Isle [A] of Fears, [D] Isle of Freedom, Isle [Bm] of Tear,
_ [G] But it's not the Isle you left _ [F#m] _
[A] behind,
_ _ _ [G] That Isle of Hunger, [A] Isle of Pain, [G] Isle you'll never [A] see _ [Bm] again,
But [G] the Isle of [D] Home [A] is always [Bm] on your _ _ _ mind.
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_ [D] Isle [G] of Hope, [F#m] Isle of _
[A] Fears, Isle [D] of Freedom, [A] _ [Bm] Isle of Tear,
[F#m] [G] But it's not the Isle [Bm] you left _ _ [F#m] [A] behind, _ _ _
That Isle [G] of Hunger, Isle [F#m] of Pain, _ [D] Isle you'll never [A] see [Bm] _
again,
[G] But the Isle of Home [A] is always on [Bm] your _ mind. _
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_ _ [D] When they closed down [Bm] Ellis Island _ [G] in _ _ [D] 1943,
_ _ _ [G] _ Seventeen million [Bm]
people had [G] come there for [A] sanctuary,
_ _ [D] And in _ springtime when I [G] came here and I stepped onto [D] its _ piers,
[G] I thought of how it [Bm] must have been [G] when you're all [A] fifteen _ _ years.
_ [D] Isle [G]
of Hope, Isle [A] of Fears, [D] Isle of Freedom, [A] [Bm] Isle of Tear,
[G] But it's not the Isle you [Bm] left _ _
[A] behind,
_ _ _ [G] That Isle of Hunger, Isle [A] of Pain, Isle you'll never [Bm] see again,
[G] But the Isle of [A] Home is always [Bm] on your _ mind.
_ _ [G] Isle of Hope, Isle [A] of Fears, [D] Isle of Freedom, [A] _ [Bm] Isle of Tear,
[G] But it's [Em] not the [G] Isle you left _ [F#m]
[A] behind,
_ _ _ That Isle of Hunger, Isle of Pain, Isle you'll never see again.
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