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The Downeaster Alexa Lyrics
Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa" And I'm cruising through Lond Island
Sound I have chartered a course to the Vineyard But tonight I am
Nantucket bound
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday And left
this morning from the 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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