Tonalità: Eb major
Verse 1
E
Esus4
E
Esus4
Old
E
Ellis Island is swarming,
A
like a scene from a costume ball.
E
B
F#m
B
Laid down in the corners of Europe,
A
B
Confined with the hope
E
of it all.
There my father's own father
stood hot armed,
A
F#m
With the tired and hungry and scared.
B
Turn of the century pilgrims,
E
Bound by the dreams that they shared.
B
They were standing in line just like cattle.
E
A
Prodded and poked and shoved.
B
F#m
Some were one desk away
B
from sweet freedom.
F#m
Some were torn from
B
someone they loved.
E
B
E
Through the sprawling tower of Babel,
C#m
A
came a young man confused and alone,
F#m
A
B
Determined and bound for America,
F#m
B
carrying everything that
E
he owned.
A
Sometimes when I look at
E
my grandfather's emigrant eyes,
I see that day reflected,
B
E
and I can't hold my feelings inside.
A
Then he started from nothing
G#m
and worked hard all of his life.
C#m
God take it for granted,
F#m
B
say Grand father Zimmerman
E
Esus4
Bm
F
Cm
died.
F
Now he sits and stares
out the window,
Bb
while his eye s are still just as clear
Gm
C
as the day he sailed from a harbor,
F
him ashore on the island of fear.
Bb
F
Cm
Now my grandfather's days are numbered,
F
Bb
F
Gm
but I won't let his memory die.
Bb
C
For he gave me the gift of this country,
F
and the look in his emigrant eyes.
Bb
Sometimes when I look at
F
my grandfather's emigrant eyes,
I see my day reflected
C
F
and I can't hold my feelings in side.
Bb
As he started with nothing
Gm
Am
and worked hard all of his life.
Don't take it for granted,
Gm
C
F
Cm
say grandfather's emigrant eyes.
F
Bb
As he started with nothing
Gm
Csus4
C
Am
and worked hard all of his life.
Don't take it for granted.
Am
Gm
Bb
say grandfather's emig
Csus4
C
F
Cm
F
rant eyes.
Thank you.
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