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[00:15.23]On the first day of January 1892
[00:24.61]They opened Ellis Island and they let the people through
[00:33.67]And the first to cross the threshold
[00:38.14]of that isle of hope and tears
[00:42.51]Was Annie Moore from Ireland
[00:46.77]Who was all of 15 years
[00:52.92]Isle of hope Isle of tears
[00:57.44]Isle of freedom isle of fears
[01:02.42]but it's not the isle you left behind
[01:09.68]That isle of hunger isle of pain
[01:14.31]Isle you'll never see again
[01:18.94]But the isle of home is always on your mind
[01:28.39]In a little bag she carried all her past and history
[01:36.25]And her dreams for the future in the land of liberty
[01:44.24]and courage is the passport
[01:47.89]When your old world disappears
[01:51.90]But there's no future in the past
[01:56.18]When you're 15 years
[02:01.64]Isle of hope Isle of tears
[02:06.01]Isle of freedom isle of fears
[02:10.59]but it's not the isle you left behind
[02:17.30]That isle of hunger isle of pain
[02:21.41]Isle you'll never see again
[02:26.13]But the isle of home is always on your mind
[02:50.21]When they closed down Ellis Island
[02:55.23]in 1943
[02:59.75]17 million people had come there for sanctuary
[03:07.42]And in springtime when I came here
[03:11.38]And I stepped onto its piers
[03:15.64]I thought of how it must have been
[03:19.70]When you're 15 years
[03:25.14]Isle of hope Isle of tears
[03:29.66]Isle of freedom isle of fears
[03:34.28]but it's not the isle you left behind
[03:41.19]That isle of hunger isle of pain
[03:45.35]Isle you'll never see again
[03:50.23]But the isle of home is always on your mind
[04:00.08]The isle of home is always on your mind