[00:01.760]Isle of Hope Isle of Tears -Celtic Thunder
[00:15.200]On the first day of January 1892
[00:24.890]They opened Ellis Island and they let the people through
[00:33.770]And the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears
[00:42.770]Was Annie Moore from Ireland
[00:46.890]Who was all of 15years
[00:53.330]Isle of hope Isle of tears
[00:57.580]Isle of freedom isle of fears
[01:02.770]But it's not the isle you left behind
[01:09.890]That isle of hunger isle of pain
[01:14.330]Isle you'll never see again
[01:18.950]But the isle of home is always on your mind
[01:28.450]In a little bag she carried all her past and history
[01:36.200]And her dreams for the future in the land of liberty
[01:44.200]And courage is the passport
[01:47.950]When your old world disappears
[01:52.140]But there's no future in the past
[01:56.450]When you're 15years
[02:01.600]Isle of hope Isle of tears
[02:06.230]Isle of freedom isle of fears
[02:10.290]But it's not the isle you left behind
[02:17.420]That isle of hunger isle of pain
[02:21.600]Isle you'll never see again
[02:26.290]But the isle of home is always on your mind
[02:50.540]When they closed down Ellis Island in 1943
[02:59.910]17million people had come there for sanctuary
[03:07.480]And in spring time when I came here
[03:11.670]And I stepped onto its piers
[03:15.790]I thought of how it must have been
[03:19.790]When you're 15years
[03:25.670]Isle of hope Isle of tears
[03:29.850]Isle of freedom isle of fears
[03:34.480]But it's not the isle you left behind
[03:41.220]That isle of hunger isle of pain
[03:45.290]Isle you'll never see again
[03:50.540]But the isle of home is always on your mind
[04:00.540]The isle of home is always on your mind

Isle of Hope Isle of Tears -Celtic Thunder
On the first day of January 1892
They opened Ellis Island and they let the people through
And the first to cross the threshold of that isle of hope and tears
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
Who was all of 15years
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
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 15years
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
When they closed down Ellis Island in 1943
17million people had come there for sanctuary
And in spring time when I came here
And I stepped onto its piers
I thought of how it must have been
When you're 15years
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
The isle of home is always on your mind