Tonalità: Eb major
Verse 1
F
Fsus4
F
Fsus4
Old
F
Ellis Island is swarming,
Bb
like a scene from a costume ball.
F
C
Gm
C
Laid down in the corners of Europe,
Bb
C
Confined with the hope
F
of it all.
There my father's own father
stood hot armed,
Bb
Gm
With the tired and hungry and scared.
C
Turn of the century pilgrims,
F
Bound by the dreams that they shared.
C
They were standing in line just like cattle.
F
Bb
Prodded and poked and shoved.
C
Gm
Some were one desk away
C
from sweet freedom.
Gm
Some were torn from
C
someone they loved.
F
C
F
Through the sprawling tower of Babel,
Dm
Bb
came a young man confused and alone,
Gm
Bb
C
Determined and bound for America,
Gm
C
carrying everything that
F
he owned.
Bb
Sometimes when I look at
F
my grandfather's emigrant eyes,
I see that day reflected,
C
F
and I can't hold my feelings inside.
Bb
Then he started from nothing
Am
and worked hard all of his life.
Dm
God take it for granted,
Gm
C
say Grandfather Zimmerman
F
Fsus4
Cm
F#
Dbm
died.
F#
Now he sits and stares
out the window,
B
while his eyes are still just as clear
Abm
Db
as the day he sailed from a harbor,
F#
him ashore on the island of fear.
B
F#
Dbm
Now my grandfather's days are numbered,
F#
B
F#
Abm
but I won't let his memory die.
B
Db
For he gave me the gift of this country,
F#
and the look in his emigrant eyes.
B
Sometimes when I look at
F#
my grandfather's emigrant eyes,
I see my day reflected
Db
F#
and I can't hold my feelings in side.
B
As he started with nothing
Abm
Bbm
and worked hard all of his life.
Don't take it for granted,
Abm
Db
F#
Dbm
say grandfather's emigrant eyes.
F#
B
As he started with nothing
Abm
Dbsus4
Db
Bbm
and worked hard all of his life.
Don't take it for granted.
Bbm
Abm
B
say grandfather's emig
Dbsus4
Db
F#
Dbm
F#
rant eye s.
Thank you.
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