Artist: | Billy Joel (English) |
User: | Memphis Drake |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
[Intro]
Am - G - Am 2x
[Verse 1]
C G Am
Well I'm on the Down- easter A- lexa
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 to- night I am Nantucket bound
[Chorus 1]
F G C F
We took on diesel back in Montauk yester- day,
F G Am G/B
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay.
F G C 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 Down- easter A- lexa
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 a- sleep
[Chorus 2]
F G C 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 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 Down- easter A- lexa
C G F
And if you work with the rod and the reel,
F C Dm
Tell my wife I am trolling At- lantis,
C G F
And I still have my hands on the wheel.
[Instrumental Bridge]
Am - Em - G - Am 2x
Em - G - D - Em
Am - Em - G - Am
[Verse 3]
C G Am
Now I drive my Down- easter A- lexa
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 F
I was a bayman like my father was be- fore.
F G Am G/B
Can't make a living as a bayman any- more.
F G C 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