On The First Day On January,
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Eighteen Ninety-Two,
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They Opened Ellis Island And They Let
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The People Through.
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And The First To Cross The Treshold
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Of That Isle Of Hope And Tears,
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Was Annie Moore From Ireland
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Who Was All Of Fifteen Years.
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[Chorus:]
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Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears,
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Isle Of Freedom, Isle Of Fears,
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But It's Not The Isle You Left Behind.
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That Isle Of Hunger, Isle Of Pain,
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Isle You'll Never See Again
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But The Isle Of Home Is Always On Your Mind.
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In A Little Bag She Carried
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All Her Past And History,
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And Her Dreams For The Future
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In The Land Of Liberty.
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And Courage Is The Passport
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When Your Old World Disappears
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But There's No Future In The Past
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When You're Fifteen Years
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[Chorus]
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When They Closed Down Ellis Island
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In Nineteen Fourty-Three,
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Seventeen Million People
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Had Come There For Sanctuary.
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And In Springtime When I Came Here
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And I Stepped Onto It's Piers,
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I Thought Of How It Must Have Been
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When You're Fifteen Years.
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[Chorus]
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The New Ground - Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears
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| Celtic Woman |
