The Downeaster Alexa chords by Billy Joel

Chords with lyrics

• Submitter: Flyinglibra51
• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner

The Downeaster Alexa
Billy Joel

Intro A minorAm

     C majorC     G+G    A minorAm
Well I`m on the Downeaster Alexa
    C majorC        G+G      FF
And I`m cruisin` through Block Island Sound
         C majorC       DmDm
I have charted a course to the vineyard
  C majorC      G+G     FF
But tonight I am Nantucket bound

      G+G       C majorC       FF
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
     G+G        FF         G+G  FF
Left this mornin` from the bell in Gardiner`s Bay
       G+G        C majorC       FF
Like all the locals here I`ve had to sell my home
       G+G         A minorAm       G+G
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone

      C majorC     G+G     A minorAm
So I could own my Downeaster Alexa
   C majorC       G+G    FF
And I go where the ocean is deep
           C majorC      DmDm
There are giants out there in the canyons
   C majorC      G+G     FF
And a good captain can`t fall asleep

   G+G        C majorC         FF
I got bills to pay and children who need clothes
        G+G         A minorAm       G+G   FF
I know there`s fish out there but where God only knows
        G+G       C majorC         FF
They say these waters aren`t what they used to be
     G+G        C majorC        G+G
But I got people back on land who count on me

     C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
So if you see my Downeaster Alexa
      C majorC       G+G      FF
And if you work with the rod and the reel
         C majorC    DmDm
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
    C majorC      G+G      FF
And I still have my hands on the wheel

A minorAm          E minorEm  A minorAm
yeah oh  yeah oh     yeah oh  yeah oh

   C majorC      G+G     A minorAm
Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa
     C majorC        G+G      FF
More and more miles from shore every year
           C majorC       DmDm
Since they tell me I can`t sell no stripers
      C majorC     G+G       FF
And there`s no luck in sword fishin` here

    G+G        C majorC     FF
I was a bay man like my father was before
       G+G      A minorAm     G+G   FF
Can`t make a living as a bay man anymore
         C majorC               FF
There ain`t much future for a man who works the sea
          G+G        C majorC       G+G
But there ain`t no island left for islanders like me

     C majorC G+G A minorAm
Yeah yeah yeah oh
     C majorC G+G A minorAm
Yeah yeah yeah oh
     C majorC G+G A minorAm
Yeah yeah yeah oh
     C majorC G+G A minorAm
Yeah yeah yeah oh

The Downeaster Alexa chords

The Downeaster Alexa is a song originally written, produced, and performed by Billy Joel for his eleventh studio album Storm Front. The album itself went to number one while the fourth single The Downeaster Alexa placed at #57 in the Billboard Hot 100. The song was included on Billy Joels Greatest Hits Vol. 3 album in 1997.

The Downeaster Alexa is performed in the key of A Minor, with Billy Joels vocal ranging F3 to Bb4. It plays in common time at a tempo of 88 beats per minute. The violin solo is played by virtuoso Itzhak Perlman.