Isle Of Hope Isle Of Tears chords by Brian Dunphy

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

🎸 Intro:

C majorC E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD G+G


🎸 Verse 1:
    G+G      D MajorD     E minorEm       G+G
On the first day of January, eighteen ninety-two
C majorC      G+G        A minorAm       D MajorD
they opened Ellis Island and they let the people through.
     G+G         D MajorD        E minorEm        G+G
And the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears
C majorC        G+G        A minorAm       D MajorD
was Annie Moore from Ireland who was all of fifteen years.

🎸 Chorus:
     C majorC      D MajorD       G+G    D MajorD     E minorEm
Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears
C majorC       A minorAm   D MajorD
but it's not the isle you left behind.
       C majorC       D MajorD         G+G  D MajorD   E minorEm
That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again
C majorC        D MajorD       G+G
but the isle of home is always on your mind.


🎸 Verse 2:
   G+G       D MajorD        E minorEm      G+G
In a little bag she carried all her past and history
C majorC       G+G      A minorAm      D MajorD
and her dreams for the future in the land of liberty.
   G+G      D MajorD        E minorEm        G+G
And courage is the passport when your old world disappears
C majorC       G+G           A minorAm        D MajorD
but there's no future in the past, when you're all of fifteen years
🎸 Chorus:
     C majorC      D MajorD       G+G    D MajorD     E minorEm
Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears
C majorC       A minorAm   D MajorD
but it's not the isle you left behind.
       C majorC       D MajorD         G+G  D MajorD   E minorEm
That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again
C majorC        D MajorD       G+G
but the isle of home is always on your mind.


🎸 Instrumental:
C majorC E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD G+G

🎸 Verse 3:
     G+G         D MajorD     E minorEm       G+G
When they closed down Ellis Island in nineteen forty-three
C majorC         G+G      A minorAm        D MajorD
seventeen million people had come there for sanctuary.
     G+G        D MajorD       E minorEm        G+G
And in Springtime when I came here and I stepped onto its piers
C majorC        G+G            A minorAm      D MajorD
I thought of how it must have hurt when you're only fifteen years.


🎸 Chorus:
     C majorC       D MajorD       G+G   D MajorD     E minorEm
Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears
C majorC       A minorAm   D MajorD
but it's not the isle you left behind.
       C majorC       D MajorD        G+G   D MajorD    E minorEm
That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again
C majorC       D MajorD       G+G
but the isle of home is always on your mind.


(orig. moves up half a note to capo 3rd here)


🎸 Chorus:
     C majorC       D MajorD       G+G   D MajorD     E minorEm
Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears
C majorC       A minorAm   D MajorD
but it's not the isle you left behind.
       C majorC       D MajorD        G+G   D MajorD    E minorEm
That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again
C majorC       D MajorD       G+G
but the isle of home is always on your mind.
     C majorC        D MajorD       C majorC    E minorEm A minorAm D MajorD G+G
Yes, the isle of home is always on your  mind.