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[ti:Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears]
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[00:00.00]Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears (2015 Version) - Celtic Thunder
[00:15.20]On the first day of January 1892
[00:24.89]They opened Ellis Island and they let the people through
[00:33.77]And the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears
[00:42.77]Was Annie Moore from Ireland
[00:46.89]Who was all of 15 years
[00:53.33]Isle of hope Isle of tears
[00:57.58]Isle of freedom isle of fears
[01:02.77]But it's not the isle you left behind
[01:09.89]That isle of hunger isle of pain
[01:14.33]Isle you'll never see again
[01:18.95]But the isle of home is always on your mind
[01:28.45]In a little bag she carried all her past and history
[01:36.20]And her dreams for the future in the land of liberty
[01:44.20]And courage is the passport
[01:47.95]When your old world disappears
[01:52.14]But there's no future in the past
[01:56.45]When you're 15 years
[02:01.60]Isle of hope Isle of tears
[02:06.23]Isle of freedom isle of fears
[02:10.29]But it's not the isle you left behind
[02:17.42]That isle of hunger isle of pain
[02:21.60]Isle you'll never see again
[02:26.29]But the isle of home is always on your mind
[02:50.54]When they closed down Ellis Island in 1943
[02:59.91]17 million people had come there for sanctuary
[03:07.48]And in spring time when I came here
[03:11.67]And I stepped onto its piers
[03:15.79]I thought of how it must have been
[03:19.79]When you're 15 years
[03:25.67]Isle of hope Isle of tears
[03:29.85]Isle of freedom isle of fears
[03:34.48]But it's not the isle you left behind
[03:41.22]That isle of hunger isle of pain
[03:45.29]Isle you'll never see again
[03:50.54]But the isle of home is always on your mind
[04:00.54]The isle of home is always on your mind