Hangover, Part II movie - The Downeaster Alexa lyrics

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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 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 canyon

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 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.

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.