The New Ground/Isle of Hope Songtext

von Celtic Woman

On the first day of January 1892
They opened Ellis Island
And they let the people through
And the first across the threshold
Of that isle of hope and tears
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
Was all of 15 years.
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 o'er past and history
And her dreams for the future in the land of liberty
And courage is the passport when your own world disappears
But there's no future in the past when you're 15 years
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
17 million people had come there for sanctury
And in springtime when I came here
And I stepped on to it's piers
I thought of how it must've been when you're 15 years
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.
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.
But the isle of home is always on your mind.