Ellis Island Lyrics - Singles - Phil Coulter

On the first day of janurary, 1892 

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, 

who was all of 15 years 

Chorus 

isle of hope, isle of tears, 

isle of freedom, isle of fears 

but its not the isle you've left behind, 

that isle of hunger, isle of pain, 

isle you'll never see again, 

but the isle of home is always on your miiiiind. 

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in a little bag she carried 

all her past and history, 

and her dreams for the future 

in the land of liberty 

and courage is the passport, 

when your old world disappears 

but there's no future in the past when your all of 15 years 

Chorus 

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when they closed down Ellis island in 1943 

17 million people 

had come there for sanctury 

and in the spring when i came here 

and i stepped on to its piers 

i thought of how it must have felt when your all of 

15 years 

Chorus