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The Downeaster Alexa chords by Billy Joel

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  • Submitter: Flyinglibra51 Flyinglibra51
  • Tuning: Standard tuning
  • Difficulty: Beginner
The Downeaster Alexa
Billy Joel

Intro  Chord diagramA minorAm

         Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramA minorAm
Well I`m on the Downeaster Alexa
        Chord diagramC majorC                Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramFF
And I`m cruisin` through Block Island Sound
                 Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramDmDm
I have charted a course to the vineyard
    Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramFF
But tonight I am Nantucket bound

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

           Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramA minorAm
So I could own my Downeaster Alexa
      Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramFF
And I go where the ocean is deep
                     Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramDmDm
There are giants out there in the canyons
      Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramFF
And a good captain can`t fall asleep

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

          Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramA minorAm
So if you see my Downeaster Alexa
           Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramFF
And if you work with the rod and the reel
                  Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramDmDm
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
       Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramFF
And I still have my hands on the wheel

Chord diagramA minorAm                    Chord diagramE minorEm   Chord diagramA minorAm
yeah oh   yeah oh          yeah oh   yeah oh

      Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramA minorAm
Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa
         Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramFF
More and more miles from shore every year
                     Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramDmDm
Since they tell me I can`t sell no stripers
            Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramFF
And there`s no luck in sword fishin` here

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

          Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramA minorAm
Yeah yeah yeah oh
          Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramA minorAm
Yeah yeah yeah oh
          Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramA minorAm
Yeah yeah yeah oh
          Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G Chord diagramA 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.

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