Chords with lyrics
✓ Verse :
G+G 
E minorEm
On the first day of January 1892
C majorC 
D MajorD
They opened Ellis Island and they let the people through
G+G E minorEm
And the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears
C majorC D MajorD
Was Annie Moore from Ireland who was all of 15 years
✓ Chorus:
E minorEm D MajorD
Isle of hope, isle of tears
C majorC G+G
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD
But it’s not the isle you left behind
E minorEm D MajorD
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
C majorC G+G
Isle you’ll never see again
E minorEm C majorC G+G
But the isle of home is always on your mind
✓ Verse :
G+G E minorEm
In a little bag, she carried all her past and history
C majorC D MajorD
And her dreams for the future in the land of liberty
G+G E minorEm
And courage is the passport when your old world disappears
C majorC D MajorD
But there’s no future in the past when you’re 15 years
✓ Chorus:
E minorEm D MajorD
Isle of hope, isle of tears
C majorC G+G
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD
But it’s not the isle you left behind
E minorEm D MajorD
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
C majorC G+G
Isle you’ll never see again
E MajorE C majorC G+G
But the isle of home is always on your mind
✓ Verse :
G+G E minorEm
When they closed down Ellis Island in 1943
C majorC D MajorD
17 million people had come there for sanctuary
G+G E minorEm
And in springtime when I came here and I stepped onto its piers
C majorC D MajorD
I thought of how it must have been when you’re 15 years
✓ Chorus:
E minorEm D MajorD
Isle of hope, isle of tears
C majorC G+G
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
E minorEm C majorC D MajorD
But it’s not the isle you left behind
E minorEm D MajorD
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
C majorC G+G
Isle you’ll never see again
E minorEm C majorC G+G
But the isle of home is always on your mind
