[ti:The Downeaster ‘Alexa’]
[ar:Billy Joel]
[al:The Hangover Part II ]
[00:10.65]Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
[00:16.18]And I'm cruising through Rock Island Sound
[00:21.57]I have chaartered a course to the Vineyard
[00:26.92]But tonight I am Nantucket bound
[00:33.91]We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
[00:39.12]And left this morning fromhe bell in Gardner's Bay
[00:44.14]Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
[00:49.86]Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone
[00:53.59]So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa"
[00:59.31]And I go where the ocean is deep
[01:04.61]There are giants out there in the canyons
[01:09.86]And a good captain can't fall asleep
[01:15.25]I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
[01:21.83]I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
[01:26.98]They say these waters aren't what they used to be
[01:32.39]But I've got people back on land who count on me
[01:35.92]So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa"
[01:41.73]And if you work with the rod and the reel
[01:47.07]Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
[01:52.34]And I still have my hands on the wheel
[01:59.01]
[02:29.72]Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa"
[02:34.98]More and more miles from shore every year
[02:40.19]Since they told me I can't sell no stripers
[02:45.50]And there's no luck in swordfishing here
[02:50.81]I was a bayman like my father was before
[02:57.67]Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
[03:02.89]There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
[03:07.87]But there ain't no island left for islanders like me