1. Pictures of Ellis Island With “Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears” The Irish Tenors

2. On the first day of January

3. Eighteen Ninety Two

4. They opened Ellis Island

5. And they let the people through

6. And the first to cross the threshold

7. Of the Isle of hope and tears

8. Was Annie Moore from Ireland

9. Who was all of fifteen years

10. Isle of hope, Isle of tears

11. Isle of freedom, Isle of fears

12. But it’s not the Isle I left behind

13. That isle of hunger, Isle of pain

14. Isle you’ll never see again

15. But the Isle of home

16. Is always on your mind

17. In her little bag she carried

18. All her past and history

19. And her dreams for the future

20. In the land of liberty

21. And courage is the passport

22. When your old world disappears

23. ‘cos there’s no future in the past

24. When you’re fifteen years

25. Isle of hope, Isle of tears

26. Isle of freedom, Isle of fears

27. But it’s not the Isle I left behind

28. That Isle of hunger, Isle of pain

29. Isle you’ll never seen again

30. But the Isle of home

31. Is always on your mind

32. When they closed down Ellis Island

33. In nineteen forty three

34. Seventeen million people

35. Had come there for sanctuary

36. And in the springtime when I came here

37. And I stepped onto its’ piers

38. I thought of how it must have been

39. When you’re only fifteen years

40. Isle of hope, Isle of tears

41. Isle of freedom, Isle of fears

42. But it’s not the Isle I left behind

43. Isle of hunger, Isle of pain

44. Isle you’ll never see again

45. But the isle of home

46. Is always on your mind

47. Isle of hope, Isle of tears

48. Isle of freedom, Isle of fears

49. But it’s not the Isle I left behind

50. Isle of hunger, Isle of pain