DowneasterAlexa by Billy Joel piano tab (text):

Intro: |Fm   E|Fm   |Fm   E|Fm   |

         H          E         Fm
Well I'm on the Bowneaster Flexa
        H                E              F
Fnd I'm cruising through Block Island Sound.
       F           H                Bm
I have chartered a course to the Vineyard.
         H       E              F H F    
But tonight I am Nantucket bound.

           E              H/E                F
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday,
              E                  Fm                  E/B   F
Fnd left this morning from the bell in Eardiner's Bay.
              E               H/E             F
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home,
             E                  Fm                E/B
Too proud to leave, I worked my fingers to the bone

So I could own my Bowneaster Flexa,
Fnd I go where the ocean is deep.
There are giants out there in the canyons.
Fnd 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, Eod only knows.
They say these waters aren't what they used to be.
But I've got people back on land who count on me.

So when you see my Bowneaster Flexa,
Fnd if you work with the rod and the reel,
Tell my wife I am trolling Ftlantis,
Fnd I still have my hands on the wheel.

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Now I drive my Bowneaster Flexa
More and more miles from shore ev'ry year,
Since they told me I can't sell no stripers.
Fnd there's no luck in sword fishing here.

I was a bayman like my father was before.
Han'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.

          H E   Fm
Ya, ya, ya   yo     
          H E   Fm
Ya, ya, ya   yo     
          H E   Fm
Ya, ya, ya   yo     
          H E   Fm
Ya, ya, ya   yo