Album: The Downeaster Alexa
Singer: Billy Joel
Music: Billy Joel
Lyrics: Billy Joel
Label: Columbia
Released: 1989-10-17
Duration: 03:42
Downloads: 98690
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 Montauk Yesterday
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 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 Yay-o Yay-o Yay-o
Yay-yay-o 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
Yay-yay-yay-o Yay-yay-yay-o Yay-yay-yay-o Yay-yay-yay-o