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isle of hope - mary duff lyrics

[verse 1]
on the first day of january 1892
they opened ellis island and they let the people through
the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears
was annie moore from ireland who was all of 15 years

[verse 2]
in a little bag, she carried all hеr past and history
and her dreams for the futurе in the land of liberty
and courage is the passport when your old world disappears
but there’s no future in the past when you’re 15 years

[chorus]
isle of hope, isle of tears
isle of freedom, isle of fears
but it’s not the isle you left behind
that isle of hunger, isle of pain
isle you’ll never see again
but the isle of home is always on your mind
[verse 3]
when they closed down ellis island in 1943
17 million people had come there for sanctuary
and in springtime when i came here and i stepped onto its piers
i thought of how it must have been when you’re 15 years

- mary duff lyrics

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