The Downeaster "Alexa" original guitar chords by
Billy Joel

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Key: A minor•

Intro 1

Am

Am

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G

G

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Am

Am

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G

G

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Am

Am

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G

G

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Am

Am

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Verse 1

C

C

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G

G

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Am

Am

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Well I'm on the Downeaster Alexa

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound

C

C

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Dm

Dm

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I have charted a course to the Vineyard

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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But tonight I am Nantucket bound

Pre-chorus 1

F

F

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G

G

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We took on diesel

C/E

C/E

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F

F

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back in Montauk, yesterday

G

G

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Left this morning

Am

Am

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G/B

G/B

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from the bell in Gardiner's Bay

F

F

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G

G

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Like all the locals here,

C/E

C/E

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F

F

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I've had to sell my home

G

G

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Too proud to leave,

Am

Am

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G/B

G/B

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I worked my fingers to the bone

Verse 2

C

C

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G

G

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Am

Am

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So I could own my Downeaster Alexa

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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And I go where the ocean is deep

C

C

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Dm

Dm

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There are giants out there in the canyons

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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And a good captain can't fall asleep

Pre-chorus 2

F

F

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G

G

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I got bills to pay

C/E

C/E

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F

F

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and children who need clothes

G

G

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Am

Am

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I know there's fish out there, but where?

G/B

G/B

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God only knows

F

F

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G

G

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They say these waters aren't

C/E

C/E

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F

F

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what they used to be

G

G

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Am

Am

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But I got people back on land

G/B

G/B

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who count on me

Verse 3

C

C

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G

G

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Am

Am

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So if you see my Downeaster Alexa

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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And if you work with the rod and the reel

C

C

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Dm

Dm

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Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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And I still have my hands on the wheel

Interlude 1

Am

Am

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Am

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Am

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Am

Am

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Em

Em

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Em

Em

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Em

Em

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Em

Em

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Am

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Am

Am

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Am

Am

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Am

Am

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Verse 4

C

C

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G

G

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Am

Am

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Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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More and more miles from shore every year

C

C

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Dm

Dm

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Since they told me I can't sell no stripers

C

C

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G

G

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F

F

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And there's no luck in swordfishing here

Pre-chorus 3

F

F

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G

G

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C/E

C/E

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F

F

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I was a bay man like my father was before

G

G

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Am

Am

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G/B

G/B

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Can't make a living as a bay man anymore

F

F

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G

G

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There ain't much future

C/E

C/E

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F

F

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for a man who works the sea

G

G

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But there ain't no island left

Am

Am

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G/B

G/B

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for islanders like me

Outro 1

C

C

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G

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Am

Am

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh

C

C

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G

G

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Am

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh

C

C

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G

G

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Am

Am

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh

C

C

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G

G

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Am

Am

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G

G

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Am

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh

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