The Downeaster ‘Alexa’

Accordi The Downeaster ‘Alexa’

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

           
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So I could own my Downeaster Alexa
      
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And I go where the ocean is deep
                     
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There are giants out there in the canyons
      
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And a good captain can't fall asleep

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 I got bills to pay and children who need clothes
               
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I know there's fish out there but where, 
         
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God only knows
               
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They say these waters aren't 
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what they used to be
             
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But I've got people back on land 
             
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who count on me

          
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So if you see my Downeaster Alexa
           
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And if you work with the rod and the reel
                  
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Tell my wife I am trawling Atlantis
      
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And I still have my hands on the wheel...

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Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa
         
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More and more miles from shore every year
                     
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Since they told me I can't sell no stripers
            
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And there's no luck in swordfishing here
        
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I was a Bayman like my father was before
             
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Can't make a living as a Bayman anymore
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 There ain't much future 
      
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for a man who works the sea
                   
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But there ain't no island left 
    
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for Islanders like me...

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