The Downeaster Alexa chords by Billy Joel

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The Downeaster Alexa
Billy Joel

Intro  Am

         C          G       Am
Well I`m on the Downeaster Alexa
        C                G            F
And I`m cruisin` through Block Island Sound
                 C             Dm
I have charted a course to the vineyard
    C            G         F
But tonight I am Nantucket bound

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

           C          G          Am
So I could own my Downeaster Alexa
      C             G        F
And I go where the ocean is deep
                     C            Dm
There are giants out there in the canyons
      C            G          F
And a good captain can`t fall asleep

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

          C           G        Am
So if you see my Downeaster Alexa
           C             G           F
And if you work with the rod and the reel
                  C        Dm
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
       C            G            F
And I still have my hands on the wheel

Am                    Em   Am
yeah oh   yeah oh          yeah oh   yeah oh

      C            G         Am
Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa
         C               G           F
More and more miles from shore every year
                     C             Dm
Since they tell me I can`t sell no stripers
            C          G             F
And there`s no luck in sword fishin` here

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

          C  G Am
Yeah yeah yeah oh
          C  G Am
Yeah yeah yeah oh
          C  G Am
Yeah yeah yeah oh
          C  G Am
Yeah yeah yeah oh