Billy Joel - The Downeaster "Alexa" (album version) Lyrics

Lyrics The Downeaster "Alexa" (album version) - Billy Joel



Well I′m on the Downeaster Alexa
And I'm cruisin′ through Block Island Sound
I have charted a course to the vineyard
But tonight I am Nantucket bound
We took on diesel back in Mantauk yesterday
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
Too proud to leave I work 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′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
Ya-ya-ya-oh
Ya-ya-ya-oh
Ya-ya-ya-oh
Ya-ya-ya-oh



Writer(s): Billy Joel


Billy Joel - My Lives
Album My Lives
date of release
22-11-2005

1 The End of the World
2 Amplifier Fire
3 Captain Jack (Live)
4 Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make)
5 Elegy: The Great Peconic
6 The Times They Are A-Changin' - Live
7 Only a Man (demo, Never Released)
8 She's Got a Way (album version)
9 Oyster Bay (demo, Never Released)
10 Piano Man (demo, Never Released)
11 The Siegfried Line (demo, Never Released)
12 New Mexico (demo, Never Released, Became "Worse Comes to Worst")
13 Cross to Bear (demo, Never Released)
14 Miami 2017 (demo, Never Released)
15 These Rhinestone Days (demo, Never Released, Became "I Loved These Days")
16 Only the Good Die Young (alternate version, Never Released)
17 Until the Night (album version)
18 It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (album version)
19 The Prime of Your Life
20 Keeping the Faith (12" version)
21 Money or Love
22 The Downeaster "Alexa" (album version)
23 Shout
24 You May Be Right (live)
25 Ballad of Billy the Kid




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