《The Downeaster ’Alexa’》歌词

[00:00:10] Well I'm on the Downeaster Alexa

[00:00:16] And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound

[00:00:21] I have charted a course to the Vineyard

[00:00:27] But tonight I am Nantucket bound

[00:00:33] We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday

[00:00:39] And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay

[00:00:44] Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home

[00:00:49] Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone

[00:00:53] So I could own my Downeaster Alexa

[00:00:59] And I go where the ocean is deep

[00:01:04] There are giants out there in the canyons

[00:01:10] And a good captain can't fall asleep

[00:01:16] I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes

[00:01:21] I know there's fish out there but where God only knows

[00:01:26] They say these waters aren't what they used to be

[00:01:32] But I've got people back on land who count on me

[00:01:35] So if you see my Downeaster Alexa

[00:01:41] And if you work with the rod and the reel

[00:01:47] Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis

[00:01:52] And I still have my hands on the wheel

[00:02:29] Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa

[00:02:35] More and more miles from shore every year

[00:02:40] Since they tell me I can't sell no stripers

[00:02:45] And there's no luck in swordfishing here

[00:02:51] I was a bayman like my father was before

[00:02:57] Can't make a living as a bayman anymore

[00:03:02] There ain't much future for a man who works the sea

[00:03:07] But there ain't no island left for islanders like me