Isle of hope, Isle of tears

Ronan Tynan-irish tenor

Seán Keane

미국으로 향하는 아일랜드인에게 관문이기도 했던 엘리스 아일랜드는 오랜세월 "isle of hope and tears"로 회자되었다. 이 노래는 엘리스 아일랜드와 미국에서 새로운 삶을 찾았던 아일랜드 이민자들에 대한 노래로서, 2003년 11월 켈트 예술 센터 합창단(Celtic Arts Center's Choir)인 An Cór Ceilteach의 연주회에서 불려졌다.

[]은 코드

[G]On the first day[D] on January, [C]Eighteen ninety-[G]two, They[C] opened Ellis[Am] Island and they[C] let The people[D] through. [G]And the first to cross the[D] treshold Of that[C] isle of hope and[G] tears, [C]Was Annie Moore from[Am] Ireland Who was[C] all of fifteen[D] years. CHORUS: [C]Isle of hope, isle of[D7] tears, Isle of[G] freedom, isle of[Em] fears, But it's[C] not the isle you left[D] behind. [C]That isle of hunger, isle of[D7] pain, Isle you'll [G]never see a[Em]gain But the[C] isle of home is al[D]ways[C] on your[G] mind. 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 you're fifteen years Chorus When they closed down Ellis Island In nineteen fourty-three, Seventeen million people Had come there for sanctuary. And in Springtime when I came here And I stepped onto it's piers, I thought of how it must have been When you're fifteen years. Chorus