The Downeaster Alexa Lyrics

The song The Downeaster Alexa is performed by Billy Joel in the album named 12 Gardens: Live (2CD) in the year 2006 .



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
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 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've 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 trawling 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 tell 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




Billy Joel - 12 Gardens: Live (2CD)

Jun 2006

  1. Angry Young man
  2. My Life
  3. Everybody Loves You Now
  4. Billy the Kid
  5. The Entertainer
  6. Vienna
  7. New York State of Mind
  8. The Night is Still young
  9. Zanzibar
  10. Miami 2017
  11. The Great Wall of China
  12. Allentown
  13. She's Right on Time
  14. Don't Ask Me Why
  15. Laura
  16. Goodnight Saigon
  17. Movin Out
  18. An Innocent man
  19. The Downeaster Alexa
  20. Always a Woman
  21. Keeping the Faith
  22. River of Dreams
  23. A Matter of Trust
  24. We Didn't Start the Fire
  25. Big Shot
  26. You May Be Right
  27. Only the Good Die Young
  28. Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
  29. Piano Man
  30. And So it Goes


The Downeaster Alexa