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The Downeaster Alexa by Billy Joel - Guitar Chords

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            The Downeaster "Alexa" - Billy Joel

G/B     x20003
C/E     032010

[Intro]
| Am  G | Am | Am G | Am |

[Verse 1]
         C          G        Am
Well I'm on the Downeaster Alexa
        C                G            F  
And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound.
       F           C             Dm
I have chartered a course to the Vineyard.
      C          G         F     C  F
But tonight I am Nantucket bound

[Chorus 1]
F           G              C/E           F
 We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday,
F              G                Am                 G/B
 And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay.
F             G                C/E            F
 Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home,
F             G                  Am             G/B
 Too proud to leave, I worked my fingers to the bone

[Verse 2]
           C          G        Am
So I could own my Downeaster Alexa
      C            G        F
And I go where the ocean is deep.
          F          C            Dm
There are giants out there in the canyons.
      C            G           F    C   F
And a good captain can't fall asleep

[Chorus 2]
F      G                C/E               F
 I got bills to pay and children who need clothes.
F               G                  Am              G/B
 I know there's fish out there but where, God only knows.
F               G             C/E               F
 They say these waters aren't what they used to be.
F             G              Am                G/B
 But I've got people back on land who count on me.

[Bridge]
            C          G        Am
So when you see my Downeaster Alexa
        F        C           Dm        F
And if you work with the rod and the reel,
        F         C           Dm
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis,
      C             G            F
And I still have my hands on the wheel.

[Bridge]
| Am G | Am | Am G | Am |
| Em | % | % | % |
| Am | % | % | % |

[Verse 3]
      C            G        Am
Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa
         C               G           F
More and more miles from shore ev'ry year,
           F         C             Dm
Since they told me I can't sell no stripers.
            C          G             F
And there's no luck in sword fishing here.

[Chorus 3]
F        G              C/E          F
 I was a bayman like my father was before.
F             G           Am        G/B
 Can't make a living as a bayman anymore.
F                 G            C/E               F
 There ain't much future for a man who works the sea.
F                   G               Am             G/B
 But there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

[Interlude]
        C  G  Am
Ya, ya, yaa aaa yo
        C  G  Am
Ya, ya, yaa aaa yo
        C  G  Am
Ya, ya, yaa aaa yo
      C  G  Am
Ya, ya, yaa aaa yo
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