The Downeaster Alexa chords by Jiggernaut

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Intro 1

Well, I'm

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on the down easterlexa
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And I'm cruising through
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Black Island Sound
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I have chartered a course
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for the vineyard
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But tonight I am Nantucket bound
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We took on Dazel back
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in Montauk yesterday
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And left this mornin' from the bill
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in Gardner's Bay
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Like all the locals here,
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I've had to sell my home
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Too proud to leave,
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I've worked my fingers to the bone
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So I put on my downy skirt, Alexa
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And I go where the ocean is deep
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There are giants out there in the canyon
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And a good captain can't fall asleep
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I got bills  to pay
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and children who need clothes
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I know there's fish out there
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but where God only knows
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They say these wa ters
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aren't what they used to be
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But I've got people back on land
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who count on me
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So if you see my down -easter Lexus
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And you work with the rod and the wheel
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Tell my wife I am trawling Atlantis
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And I still have my hand on the wheel
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Now I drive my down easter alexa
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More and more miles
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from shore every year
Since they told me I can
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't sell no stripers
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And there's no luck in sword fishing here
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I was a bay man
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like my father was before
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Can't make a living as
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a bay man anymore
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There ain't much future
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for a man who works the sea
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There ain't no is land left
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for is  landers like me
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah,
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