The Downeaster 'Alexa'-Billy Joel

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[00:10.69]Well I'm on the Downeaster Alexa
[00:16.25]And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound
[00:21.69]I have charted a course to the Vineyard
[00:27.00]But tonight I am Nantucket bound
[00:33.56]We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
[00:39.06]And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay
[00:44.19]Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
[00:49.69]Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone
[00:53.56]So I could own my Downeaster Alexa
[00:59.25]And I go where the ocean is deep
[01:04.58]There are giants out there in the canyons
[01:10.02]And a good captain can't fall asleep
[01:16.65]I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
[01:21.71]I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
[01:26.77]They say these waters aren't what they used to be
[01:32.46]But I've got people back on land who count on me
[01:35.96]So if you see my Downeaster Alexa
[01:41.77]And if you work with the rod and the reel
[01:47.08]Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
[01:52.46]And I still have my hands on the wheel
[02:19.99]
[02:29.68]Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa
[02:35.06]More and more miles from shore every year
[02:40.24]Since they tell me I can't sell no stripers
[02:45.63]And there's no luck in swordfishing here
[02:51.87]I was a bayman like my father was before
[02:57.56]Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
[03:02.56]There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
[03:07.75]But there ain't no island left for islanders like me