Isle Of Hope Isle Of Tears chords by Brian Dunphy

• Capo on 4th

🎸 Intro:

C Em Am D G



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

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


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


🎸 Instrumental:
C Em Am D G


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


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


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


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