Key: G major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
a siren was swarming
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Like a scene from a costume ball
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And on fire with the hope of it all
There my father's own
father stood huddled
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With the tired and the hungry
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and the scared
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bound by the dream they shared.
They were standing in line
just like cattle,
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poked and sordid and shod.
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from sweet freedom,
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Some were torn from someone
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Through the sprawling tower of Babel
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fused and alone,
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carrying everything that
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he owned.
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and I can't hold my feelings inside.
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I see starting with nothing
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and working hard all of his life.
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emigrant fathers
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Now he rocks and he
stares out the window,
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but his eyes are still just as clear
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and came ashore on the Island of Tears.
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Now my grandfather's
days are numbered,
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but I won't let his memory die
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Cause he gave me the gift of this country
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and the look in his im migrant eyes
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say Grandfather's Immigrant
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Times.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG D Am C Bm
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