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