Billy Joel - The Downeaster 'Alexa' - 12 Gardens Live Lyrics

Lyrics The Downeaster 'Alexa' - 12 Gardens Live - Billy Joel



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
Left this morning from the bell in Gardiners Bay,
Like all the locals here I have 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 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 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.



Writer(s): Billy Joel


Billy Joel - The Piano Men (Live in Tokyo)

1 The Night Is Still Young - 12 Gardens Live
2 The Night Is Still Young (Live 2006 At Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)
3 New York State of Mind - 12 Gardens Live
4 Vienna (Live 2006 At Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)
5 Vienna - 12 Gardens Live
6 The Entertainer - 12 Gardens Live
7 The Ballad of Billy the Kid - 12 Gardens Live
8 Everybody Loves You Now - 12 Gardens Live
9 Everybody Loves You Now (Live)
10 My Life - 12 Gardens Live
11 My Life (Live)
12 Prelude / Angry Young Man - 12 Gardens Live
13 Angry Young Man (Live)
14 Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway) [Live]
15 Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway) - 12 Gardens Live
16 Allentown - 12 Gardens Live
17 Only the Good Die Young - 12 Gardens Live
18 You May Be Right - 12 Gardens Live
19 Keeping the Faith - 12 Gardens Live
20 The Downeaster "Alexa" (Live 2006 At Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)
21 The Downeaster 'Alexa' - 12 Gardens Live
22 An Innocent Man - 12 Gardens Live
23 Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) - 12 Gardens Live
24 A Room of Our Own (Live 2006 At Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)
25 Laura - 12 Gardens Live
26 Laura (Live 2006 At Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)
27 Don't Ask Me Why - 12 Gardens Live
28 She's Right On Time (Live 2006 At Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)
29 She's Right On Time - 12 Gardens Live
30 The Great Wall of China (Live 2006 At Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)
31 Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - 12 Gardens Live
32 It's Still Rock & Roll to Me - 12 Gardens Live
33 Stiletto - 12 Gardens Live
34 Honesty - 12 Gardens Live
35 It's Still Rock and Roll To Me - Live
36 And So It Goes - 12 Gardens Live




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