Downeaster Alexa-Chris Angel

[ti:Downeaster Alexa] [ar:Chris Angel] [al:The Hero of Canton] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.32]Downeaster Alexa - Chris Angel [00:01.13]Written by：Billy Joel [00:02.00] [00:11.60]Well I'm on the downeaster alexa [00:15.77] [00:17.01]And I'm cruising through block island sound [00:21.65] [00:22.18]I have charted a course to the vineyard [00:26.78] [00:27.60]But tonight I am nantucket bound [00:31.74] [00:34.45]We took on diesel back in montauk yesterday [00:38.04] [00:39.37]And left this morning fromhe bell in gardiner's bay [00:43.54] [00:44.77]Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home [00:48.48] [00:50.09]Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone [00:54.24]So I could own my downeaster alexa [00:58.40] [00:59.75]And I go where the ocean is deep [01:03.96] [01:04.79]There are giants out there in the canyons [01:09.66] [01:10.37]And a good captain can't fall asleep [01:14.19] [01:17.03]I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes [01:20.92] [01:22.04]I know there's fish out there but where God only knows [01:25.91] [01:27.30]They say these waters aren't what they used to be [01:31.32] [01:32.74]But I've got people back on land who count on me [01:36.86]So if you see my downeaster alexa [01:40.95] [01:42.10]And if you work with the rod and the reel [01:46.36] [01:47.43]Tell my wife I am trolling atlantis [01:52.00] [01:53.03]And I still have my hands on the wheel [01:56.91] [02:19.65]Now I drive my downeaster alexa [02:23.56] [02:24.79]More and more miles from shore every year [02:28.93] [02:30.14]Since they told me I can't sell no stripers [02:34.77] [02:35.53]And there's no luck in swordfishing here [02:39.38] [02:41.96]I was a bayman like my father was before [02:45.81] [02:47.26]Can't make a living as a bayman anymore [02:51.40] [02:52.60]There ain't much future for a man who works the sea [02:56.55] [02:57.88]But there ain't no island left for islanders like me