The Downeaster Alexa-Billy Joel

[00:41.64]Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa" [00:48.36]I am cruising through Block Island Sound [00:57.69]I have chartered a course to the Vineyard [01:19.11]But tonight I am Nantucket bound [01:25.32]We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday [01:30.51]And left this morning from the bell in Gardner's Bay [01:36.09]Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home [01:40.65]Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone [01:44.46]So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa" [01:52.98]And I go where the ocean is deep [02:01.20]There are giants out there in the canyons [02:02.04]And a good captain can't fall asleep [02:06.45]I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes [02:11.40]I know there's fish out there but where God only knows [02:16.29]They say these waters aren't what they used to be [02:21.63]But I've got people back on land who count on me [02:25.08]So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa" [02:31.71]And if you work with the rod and the reel [02:36.87]Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis [02:42.45]And I still have my hands on the wheel [03:36.30]Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa" [03:42.57]More and more miles from shore every year [03:47.22]Since they told me I can't sell no stripers [03:51.57]And there's no luck in swordfishing here [03:57.36]I was a bayman like my father was before [04:02.73]Can't make a living as a bayman anymore [04:07.41]There ain't much future for a man who works the sea [04:12.30]But there ain't no island left for islanders like me