C            G
On the first day of January
F               C
Eighteen ninety-two
     F            Dm              F
They opened Ellis Island and they let
           G
The people through
        C                  G
And the first to cross the threshold
        F                C
Of that isle of hope and tears
    F                Dm
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
        F              G
Who was all of fifteen years


[Refrain]
        F             G7
Isle of hope, isle of tears
        C                 Am
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
         F                       G
But it's not the isle you left behind
             F               G7
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
            C          Am
Isle you'll never see again
        F                G              F  C
But the isle of home is always on your  mind


[Verse 2]
       C            G
In a little bag she carried
F               C
All her past and history
     F                 Dm
And her dreams for the future
        F           G
In the land of liberty
        C           G
And courage is the passport
        F                C
When your old world disappears
    F                Dm
But there's no future in the past
      F             G
When you're fifteen years


[Refrain]
        F             G7
Isle of hope, isle of tears
        C                 Am
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
         F                       G
But it's not the isle you left behind
             F               G7
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
            C          Am
Isle you'll never see again
        F                G              F  C
But the isle of home is always on your  mind


[Verse 3]
       C            G
When they closed down Ellis Island
F               C
In nineteen forty-three
     F            Dm
Seventeen million people
      F            G
Had come there for sanctuary
        C                  G
And in Springtime when I came here
        F                C
And I stepped onto it's piers
    F                Dm
I thought of how it must have been
        F              G
When you're fifteen years


[Refrain 2x]
        F             G7
Isle of hope, isle of tears
        C                 Am
Isle of freedom, isle of fears
         F                       G
But it's not the isle you left behind
             F               G7
That isle of hunger, isle of pain
            C          Am
Isle you'll never see again
        F                G              F  C
But the isle of home is always on your  mind