Isle Of Hope chords by Sean Hayes

Chords with lyrics

G+G - B minorBm - E minorEm - A augmentedA - D MajorD

    D MajorD      A augmentedA    G+G        D MajorD
On the first day of January, eighteen ninety-two,
   G+G      D MajorD        E minorEm       A augmentedA
they opened Ellis Island and they let the people through.
     D MajorD         A augmentedA         G+G        D MajorD
And the first to cross the threshold, of that isle of hope and tears,
  G+G        D MajorD        E minorEm       A augmentedA   A7A7
was Annie Moore from Ireland, who was all of fifteen years.

Chorus:
      G+G       A augmentedA       D MajorD         B minorBm
  Isle of hope, isle of tears, isle of freedom, isle of fears,
       G+G        E minorEm   A augmentedA  A7A7
  but it's not the isle you left behind.
         G+G        A augmentedA         D MajorD      B minorBm
  That isle of hunger, isle of pain, isle you'll never see again,
       G+G       A augmentedA       D MajorD
  but the isle of home is always on your mind.

   D MajorD       A augmentedA        G+G      D MajorD
In a little bag she carried, all her past and history,
    G+G       D MajorD       E minorEm      A augmentedA
and her dreams for the future, in the land of liberty.
  D MajorD        A augmentedA         G+G       D MajorD
And courage is the passport, when your old world disappears,
  G+G         D MajorD            E minorEm       A augmentedA
but there's no future in the past, when you're all of fifteen years.


 Chorus:


 G+G - E minorEm - E minorEm - A augmentedA - D MajorD


      D MajorD         A augmentedA     G+G D MajorD
 When they closed down Ellis Island, in 1943,
 G+G         D MajorD        E minorEm       A augmentedA
 seventeen million people had come there for sanctuary.
     D MajorD         A augmentedA        G+G         D MajorD
 And in Springtime when I came here, and I stepped onto it?s piers,
   G+G        D MajorD              E minorEm      A augmentedA   A7A7
 I thought of how it must have hurt, when you're only fifteen years.