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Testo The Downeaster 'Alexa' - Live at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY - June 1990 - Billy Joel

Testo della canzone The Downeaster 'Alexa' - Live at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY - June 1990 (Billy Joel), tratta dall'album Live at Yankee Stadium

I mean it, this is the first day of summer

I hope we can all get to the beach, without

Having my crap washed up on it this year

Don't ever go swimming in the Arthur Kill

This is a song dedicated to the fishermen in

The place where I grew up in Long Island

This is called The Downeaster Alexa

Well, I'm on the Downeaster Alexa

And I'm cruising through Block Island sound

I have charted a course to the Vineyard

But tonight, I am Nantucket bound

We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday

Left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay

Like all the locals here, I 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 that live 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

If you work with a rod and a reel

Tell my wife I am trolling in Alas

And I still have my hands on the wheel

Ya-yo

Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa

Four more miles from shore every year

Since they told me I can't sell no stribers

That there's no luck in swordfishing here

I was a bay man like my father was before

You can't make a living as a bay man anymore

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea

But there ain't no island left for islanders like me

Ya-ya-ya, yo

Ya-ya-ya, ya-yo

Ya-ya-ya, yo

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