Billy Joel Downeaster Alexa Lyrics

Downeaster Alexa Lyrics

Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
And I'm cruising through Block
Island Sound
I have charted 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 Gardiner'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