Down Easter Alexa Uke tab by Billy Joel

5 Chords used in the song: G, D, Em, C, Am

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Key: G, EmChords
G G      D D          Em Em
Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
G G D D Em Em
And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound
C C G G Am Am
I have charted a course to the Vineyard
G G D D Em Em
But tonight I am Nantucket bound

C C D D G G C C
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
C C D D G G D D
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay
C C D D G G C C
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
C C D D G G D D
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone

G G D D Em Em
So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa"
G G D D Em Em
And I go where the ocean is deep
C C G G Am Am
There are giants out there in the canyons
G G D D Em Em
And a good captain can't fall asleep

C C D D G G C C
I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
C C D D G G D D
I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
C C D D G G C C
They say these waters aren't what they used to be
C C D D G G D D
But I've got people back on land who count on me

G G D D Em Em
So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa"
G G D D Em Em
And if you work with the rod and the reel
C C G G Am Am
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
G G D D Em Em
And I still have my hands on the wheel

G G D D Em Em
Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa"
G G D D Em Em
More and more miles from shore every year
C C G G Am Am
Since they tell me I can't sell no stripers
G G D D Em Em
And there's no luck in swordfishing here.

C C D D G G C C
I was a bayman like my father was before
C C D D G G D D
Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
C C D D G G C C
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
C C D D G G D D
But there ain't no island left for islanders like me

Uke tab by , 06 May 2009

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