Mary Duff - Isle Of Hope songtekst

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Het lied gaat over Annie Moore. Zij was de eerste Ierse emigrante naar de VS die in 1892 via de Ellis Island Facility het land binnenkomt. Ellis Island Facility was het immigratie kantoor in de haven van New York. Dat kantoor was juist geopend, dus ook in 1892 en deed dienst tot 1943. Miljoenen immigranten kwamen via dat kantoor het land binnen. Het kantoor is na sluiting omgebouwd tot een museum.

Annie Moore was 15 jaar en ze kwam met haar 2 jongere broertjes. 4 jaar eerder waren haar ouders al naar Amerika gegaan. Gezinshereniging dus. In de Ierse havenstad Cobh staat een standbeeld van haar en haar 2 broertjes.

On the first day on January, eighteen ninety-two
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 only fifteen 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 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

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 nineteen fourty-three
Seventeen million people had come there for Sanctuary
And in springtime when I came here and I stepped onto its piers
I thought of how it must have been when you're fifteen 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
The Isle of home is always on your mind

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Auteur: Brendan Graham

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Publisher: Rosette Records

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Taal: Engels

Komt voor op: The Complete Collection (2017) , The Ultimate Collection (2005)

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