Tonalità: Eb major
Verse 1
F#
F#sus4
F#
F#sus4
Old
F#
Ellis Island is swarming,
B
like a scene from a costume ball.
F#
C#
G#m
C#
Laid down in the corners of Europe,
B
C#
Confined with the hope
F#
of it all.
There my father's own father
stood hot armed,
B
G#m
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#
B
Prodded and poked and shoved.
C#
G#m
Some were one desk away
C#
from sweet freedom.
G#m
Some were torn from
C#
someone they loved.
F#
C#
F#
Through the sprawling tower of Babel,
D#m
B
came a young man confused and alone,
G#m
B
C#
Determined and bound for America,
G#m
C#
carrying everything that
F#
he owned.
B
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.
B
Then he started from nothing
A#m
and worked hard all of his life.
D#m
God take it for granted,
G#m
C#
say Grand father Zimmerman
F#
F#sus4
C#m
G
Dm
died.
G
Now he sits and stares
out the window,
C
while his eyes are still just as clear
Am
D
as the day he sailed from a harbor,
G
him ashore on the island of fear.
C
G
Dm
Now my grandfather's days are numbered,
G
C
G
Am
but I won't let his memory die.
C
D
For he gave me the gift of this country,
G
and the look in his emigrant eyes.
C
Sometimes when I look at
G
my grandfather's emigrant eyes,
I see my day reflected
D
G
and I can't hold my feelings in side.
C
As he started with nothing
Am
Bm
and worked hard all of his life.
Don't take it for granted,
Am
D
G
Dm
say grandfather's emigrant eyes.
G
C
As he started with nothing
Am
Dsus4
D
Bm
and worked hard all of his life.
Don't take it for granted.
Bm
Am
C
say grandfather's emig
Dsus4
D
G
Dm
G
rant eyes.
Thank you.
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