Eyes Of The Immigrant chords by Eric Andersen

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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They came
by day and they came by night
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They came like cattle,
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they were packed so tight
They rode on stairways and
they slept on the decks
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The only thing they knew was
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they could not turn back
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They came from
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England and they came from
France
They came from up and down
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all of the continent
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They came in floods and
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they came in waves
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They came for glory and
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they came to escape
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Oh, of the healthy, eyes of the lame
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Eyes of the free and the
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eyes of the chained
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Eyes of the wealthy, eyes of the poor
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Eyes of an
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Indian who rides nevermore
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Always remember and never forget
Beneath all the dirt and be
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neath all the sweat
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Who looked to the future and
knew what it meant
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Were the hearts and the minds,
the dreams and the souls
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In the eyes of the immigrant
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People held their breath in
the morning light as
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New
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York harbors pulled into sight.
They stood on the ladders and the decks
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just to see the statue of a lady they called
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Liberty.
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Hands gripped the rails,
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hungry eyes peered up.
Some were crying from their eyes,
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some were crying from their hearts.
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Lookin' to the future and
dreamin' what it might be
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A son or a daughter could
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be the president
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Out of
Ellis
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Island they poured like sheep
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Under the land and into the street
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With the hands of the children and
the coats on their backs
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They brought nothin' more
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than they could fit in a sack
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To be carpenters, steel workers,
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firemen and cops
Play in a rag, sew shoes and
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start neighborhood shops
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To work with their hands and
work with their backs
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Pulling coal from the ground and
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putting smoke up the stairs
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Oh, eyes of the healthy, eyes of the lame
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Eyes of the free and the
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eyes of the chained
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Eye      s of the wealthy,
eyes of the poor
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Eyes of an
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Indian who rides nevermore
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Always remember and never forget
Beneath all the dirt and be
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neath all the sweat
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Who looked to the future and
knew what it meant
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Where the hearts and the minds,
the dreams and the souls
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And the eyes of an immigrant
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Some     tried to settle,
some could not afford
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Some kept dreaming of a
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new frontier
Everybody was convinced
they had a place in the sun
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It wasn't what you were so much
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as what you could become
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Everybody's future wasn't
everybody's dream
The land could be barren and
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the streets could be mean
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It's a fact in the suburbs and
the farms and the shacks
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Here you only move ahead,
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there ain't no place to fall back
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Eyes of the healthy, eyes of the lame
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Eyes of the free and the
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eyes of the chained
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Eyes of the wealthy, eyes of the poor
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Eyes of an
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Indian who rides nevermore
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Always remember and never forget
Beneath all the dirt and be
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neath all the sweat
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And look to the future and
you won't admit
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Where the hearts and the minds
The dreams and the souls
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And the eyes
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Of the immigrant
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Of the immigrant
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I'll     be in       my grave
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I'll be in my grave
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