Tonalità: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Oh, Ellis Island was swarming
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Like a scene from a costume ball
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Decked out in the colors of Europe
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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 hungry and scared
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Turn of the century pilgrims
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Bound by the dream that they shared
They were standing in line just like cattle
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Poked and sorted and shoved
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Some were one desk
away from sweet freedom
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Some were torn from someone
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they love
Through this sprawling Tower of Babel
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Came a young man,
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confused and alone
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Determined and bound for America
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And carrying all that he owned
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Verse 2
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Sometimes when I looked in my
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grandfather's immigrant eyes
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I saw that day reflected and I couldn't
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hold my feelings inside
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I saw started with nothing
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and working hard all of his life
F#
"So don't take it for granted,"
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said grandfather's immigrant eyes
Interlude 1
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B
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D#m
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Verse 3
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He would rock and stare out the window
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But his eyes are still just as clear
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As the day he sailed through the Harbor
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F#
And come ashore on that island
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of tears
My grandfather's days were numbered
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C#m
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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F#
And the look in his immigrant eyes
Verse 4
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E
Sometimes when I looked
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in my grandfather's immigrant eyes
F#
I saw that day reflected and couldn't
hold my feelings inside
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C#m
B
E
I saw started with nothing
B
and working hard all of his life
F#
"So don't take it for granted," said
grandfather's immigrant eyes
B
F#
"Don't take it for granted," said grandfather's
B
E
B
immigrant eyes
E
D#m
C#m
F#
B
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