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Pictures of Ellis Island

Pictures of Ellis Island. With “Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears” The Irish Tenors. On the first day of January. Eighteen Ninety Two. They opened Ellis Island. And they let the people through. And the first to cross the threshold. Of the Isle of hope and tears. Was Annie Moore from Ireland.

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Pictures of Ellis Island

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  1. Pictures of Ellis Island With “Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears” The Irish Tenors

  2. On the first day of January

  3. Eighteen Ninety Two

  4. They opened Ellis Island

  5. And they let the people through

  6. And the first to cross the threshold

  7. Of the Isle of hope and tears

  8. Was Annie Moore from Ireland

  9. Who was all of fifteen years

  10. Isle of hope, Isle of tears

  11. Isle of freedom, Isle of fears

  12. But it’s not the Isle I left behind

  13. That isle of hunger, Isle of pain

  14. Isle you’ll never see again

  15. But the Isle of home

  16. Is always on your mind

  17. In her little bag she carried

  18. All her past and history

  19. And her dreams for the future

  20. In the land of liberty

  21. And courage is the passport

  22. When your old world disappears

  23. ‘cos there’s no future in the past

  24. When you’re fifteen years

  25. Isle of hope, Isle of tears

  26. Isle of freedom, Isle of fears

  27. But it’s not the Isle I left behind

  28. That Isle of hunger, Isle of pain

  29. Isle you’ll never seen again

  30. But the Isle of home

  31. Is always on your mind

  32. When they closed down Ellis Island

  33. In nineteen forty three

  34. Seventeen million people

  35. Had come there for sanctuary

  36. And in the springtime when I came here

  37. And I stepped onto its’ piers

  38. I thought of how it must have been

  39. When you’re only fifteen years

  40. Isle of hope, Isle of tears

  41. Isle of freedom, Isle of fears

  42. But it’s not the Isle I left behind

  43. Isle of hunger, Isle of pain

  44. Isle you’ll never see again

  45. But the isle of home

  46. Is always on your mind

  47. Isle of hope, Isle of tears

  48. Isle of freedom, Isle of fears

  49. But it’s not the Isle I left behind

  50. Isle of hunger, Isle of pain

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