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The Downeaster Alexa

Key: C

Introduction:  Am   G   Am   Am   G   Am  

difficulty
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                   C                   G                 Am 
Well I'm on the Downeaster Alexa
                 C                               G                           F 
And I'm cruising through Block Island Sound.
               F                     C                               Dm 
I have chartered a course to the Vineyard.
                   C             G                           F  C  F 
But tonight I am Nantucket bound.
                       G                           C/E                               F 
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday,
                             G                                   Am                                   G/B     F 
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay.
                             G                             C/E                         F 
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home,
                           G                                   Am                               G/B 
Too proud to leave, I worked my fingers to the bone
So I could own my Downeaster Alexa,
                                            Am 
Now I drive my Downeaster Alexa
More and more miles from shore ev'ry year,
                     C  G     Am 
Ya, ya, ya     yo
                     C  G     Am 
Ya, ya, ya     yo
                     C  G     Am 
Ya, ya, ya     yo
                     C  G     Am 
Ya, ya, ya     yo