Chords for Seán Keane - "Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears" HD. #5/7

[A] _ Brendan wrote this song about the first person to come through Ellis Island when it first
opened as a screening centre for the [D] immigrants coming into America from all over the world,
all over Europe.
[E] And [F] the first person to come through was a young girl of 15 years of age
called Annie Moore.
And she and her two young brothers were the first three people to come
through Ellis Island in [E] 1892.
And this is the song that [G#m] Brendan wrote and it gave it
the title that was given to the island by the immigrants at [E] that time and that was Isle
of Hope, Isle of Tears.
And if you know the song and you feel like singing along with
it, please go for it.
_ _ _ Actually, we did this song in [F] Vienna one night a number of years
ago and [A] a lady who came up to me and [E] she introduced herself and she told me she was a [G#] historian.
And she was actually [G#m] studying the immigration [F] from Austria to [B] America.
[A] And she said, do
you know why [E] Annie Moore and her two [F#m] young brothers were the first [F] three off the ship
onto [F#m] Ellis Island?
And I said, [F] no.
[E] And I said, maybe you'll tell me.
And [F#] she says,
I [E] will.
She said there was an Austrian man standing just at the [Fm] gangway [E] as they opened
the door about to disembark.
And he stood aside and he let the three [F] children off [E] first
and he's the fourth name on [F] the register.
A little [E]
bit of [F#m] the story.
[E] A song called Isle
of Hope, [G#] Isle of Tears.
[E] _
[A] _ _ _ [E] _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ On the first day [D#] of January _ [C#m] _
_ 1892, [E] _ _ _ they opened [F#] Ellis [A] Island and they let the people [B] through.
[E] _ [B] [E] And the first to cross the [B] threshold [E] [C#m] of that Isle of [E] Hope and _ Tears [A] was Annie Moore [F#m] from Ireland.
[A] With all the 15 [B] _ _ [E] years.
[B] _ _ _
[A] Isle of Hope, Isle [B] of [E] Tears.
Isle of Freedom, [G#m] Isle [C#m] of Fears.
[A] But it's not [E] the Isle [F#m] you left _ [B] behind.
[E] _ _ [B] _ That [A] Isle of Hunger, Isle [B] of Pain,
[E] Isle you'll never [G#m] see [C#m] again. _
[E] But the Isle [A] of Home [B] is always on [E] your [A] mind.
[E] _ _ _
In her little bag she [B] carried
[C#m] All her past and [E] history.
_ _ [A]
And her [E] dream for the [F#m] future _
[A] In the land [E] of Level [B] _ G.
[E] And covet is the [B] passport
_ When [C#m] your old world _ [G#m] disappears.
[E] _ [A] Cause [E] there's no [F#m] future in the [A] past
When you're 15 [B] _ _ [E] years.
[B] _
_ Isle [A] of Hope, Isle [B] of Tears.
[E] Isle of Freedom, _ [C#m] Isle of _ Fears.
[E] But it's not the [F#m] Isle you _ [E] left [B] behind.
[E] _ _ [B] _
_ [E] That [A] Isle of Hunger, Isle [E] of Pain,
Isle you'll never see [C#m]
again.
But [E] [A] the Isle of [B] Home is [E] always on your [A] mind. _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ [E] _ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _
_ When they closed down Ellis Island _ [C#m] In _ _ [E] 1943. _
_ [B] _ [A] 17 [E] million [F#m] _
people
[A] Had to bear for Spank [B] to be. _
_ [E] And in springtime when [B] I came here
And [C#m] I stepped on here with [E] _
tears
I [A] thought of [F#m] how it must have been
[A] When you're 15 [B] _ _
[E] years.
[B] _ _ Isle [A] of Hope, Isle [B] of [E] Tears.
Isle of Freedom, _ [C#m] Isle of _ Fears.
[A] But it's not the [C#m] [F#] Isle you [A] left _ [B] behind.
[E] _
_ [B] _ [C#m] That [E] [A] Isle of Hunger, _ [B] Isle of [E] Pain,
Isle you'll [D#] never see [C#m] again.
_ [A] But the Isle of [B] Home is [E] always on your mind.
_ _ That Isle [A] of Hope, Isle [B] of [E] Tears.
Isle of Freedom, Isle [C#m] of Fears.
[A] But it's not the [E] [F#m] Isle you left _ [B] behind. _
_ [E] _ _ That [A] Isle of Hunger, [Em] Isle of [B] [E] Pain,
Isle you'll never [D#] see [C#m] again.
_ [G#m] But [A] the Isle of [B] Home is [E] always on your mind.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ [B] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ [B] _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _