
Date of issue: 02.05.2019
Song language: English
The Downeaster "Alexa" |
Well I’m on the downeaster «alexa» |
And I’m cruising through block island sound |
I have chartered 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 gardner’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 trolling 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 told 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 |
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