CHLOE:
On the first day on 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 fifteen years

CELTIC WOMAN:
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

LISA:
In a little bag she carried
All her past and history,
And her dreams for the future
In the land of liberty

LYNN:
And courage is the passport
When your old world disappears
But there's no future in the past
When you're fifteen years

FULL CHORUS:
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Isle of hope, isle of tears,
Isle of freedom, isle of fears,

CELTIC WOMAN:
But it's not the isle you left behind

FULL CHORUS:
That isle of hunger, isle of pain,
Isle you'll never see again

CELTIC WOMAN:
But the isle of home is always on your mind

ALEX:
When they closed down Ellis Island
In nineteen forty-three,
Seventeen million people
Had come there for sanctuary

ALEX, CHLOE AND LYNN:
And in Springtime when I came here
And I stepped onto it's piers,

CHLOE:
I thought of how it must have been
When you're fifteen years

(repeat full chorus 2x)

LISA:
The isle of home is always on your mind

Thanks to Allison for correcting these lyrics

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