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Billy Joel - The Downeaster "Alexa" Lyrics

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  • Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
  • And I'm cruising through Rock Island Sound
  • I have chaartered a course to the Vineyard
  • But tonight I am Nantucket bound
  • We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
  • And left this morning fromhe bell in Gardner's Bay
  • Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
  • Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone
  • So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa"
  • And I go where the ocean is deep
  • There are giants out there in the canyons
  • And a good captain can't fall asleep
  • I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
  • I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
  • They say these waters aren't what they used to be
  • But I've got people back on land who count on me
  • So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa"
  • And if you work with the rod and the reel
  • Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
  • And I still have my hands on the wheel
  • Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa"
  • More and more miles from shore every year
  • Since they told me I can't sell no stripers
  • And there's no luck in swordfishing here
  • I was a bayman like my father was before
  • Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
  • There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
  • But there ain't no island left for islanders like me
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