The Downeaster 'Alexa' - Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006

Well I'm on the Downeaster "Alexa"
 And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound,
 I have charted a course to the Vineyard
 But tonight I am Nantucket bound.
 We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
 Left this morning from the bell in Gardiners Bay,
 Like all the locals here I have had to sell my home
 Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone.
 So I could own my Downeaster "Alexa"
 And I go where the ocean is deep
 There are giants out there in the canyons
 And a good captain can't fall asleep.
 I got bills to pay and children who need clothes
 I know there's fish out there but where God only knows,
 They say these waters aren't what they used to be
 But I got people back on land who count on me.
 So if you see my Downeaster "Alexa"
 And if you work with the rod and the reel,
 Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
 And I still have my hands on the wheel.
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 Now I drive my Downeaster "Alexa"
 More and more miles from shore every year
 Since they told me I can't sell no stripers
 And there's no luck in swordfishing here
 I was a bayman like my father was before
 Can't make a living as a bayman anymore,
 There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
 But there ain't no island left for islanders like me.